CosmicCleric , 2 months ago

But during the trump years, those figures spiked big time.

[Citation required.] [And define 'big time'.]

Not to mention, these legislators are insulated from their constituents pretty effectively.

No, they are not. You can contact them directly.

But moreso, they are not policed. If they started losing elections because the electorate actually participated in the system, with more than just sometimes voting, that would change. It truly comes back to them being able to get away with doing their jobs poorly because they are not held responsible for their (bad) work.

But I don’t think the system that has been further and further adulterated to those ends will ever just hand us the tools to upend that system.

The whole point of my argument is that we have those tools today, we're just too lazy/not-caring to use them.