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Our government is broken. That's the bottom line.
Government in the United States is supposed to get its power from the consent of the governed, but except in a most superficial going through the motions sense, that is clearly no longer the case. The Constitution is no longer the supreme law of the land, it's just sort of a suggestion that is cast aside by the powerful whenever it gets in the way.
I grew up in the 70's. I have a hard time imagining the congress that dealt with Nixon and Watergate, that gave us the Church Commission later in the decade and that just generally stood up to the executive not taking decisive action if all of these things had come to light. This congress? It's as worthless as it was when Bush was in office.
What has happened to America?
