Amen!! Allowing ILLEGALS into this country who refuse to assimilate to our values IS a huge problem.
This country was founded upon Christian values and principles. We have a prime example of those in Congress side stepping those values; Pelosi approving of abortion and our SCOTUS voting for same sex marriages, etc. That IS the problem in a nutshell; our leaders sidestepping those values and principles for votes. Most importantly, the SCOTUS is not there to re-write laws but to interpret law as it relates to the Constitution.
I think a lot of the problem with out "leaders" is their contact bubble. Washington DC, like most centers of power has power seekers of all ilk, and every perversion available on tap. Sure, some of that can be found most anyplace, but the concentration of it where the money flows and power surges is disproportionately high. Hence, their Overton Window is seeing a view something different from what we see out here in flyover country, and they just don't go back and visit with ordinary folks enough to see otherwise.
I think that is how many of the pubbies in Congress get suckered into believing that some of the dreck they vote for is somehow acceptable to their constituency.
Then, too, if we knew what they were up to in DC (not going to hear the worst of it on the MSM nooze) maybe we'd even have time to write or call and give them our thoughts on the matters, provided the staffers didn't cut that effort off at the knees, like pre-Elon Twitter.
Unfortunately, since the 17th Amendment, the Senate no longer is beholden to State Legislatures, but is just an echo of the House, pandering to what they perceive the voters' preferences to be, something easily astroturfed, if not just a victim of the squeaky wheel syndrome. So we get stuck with whatever they have been assured by insiders is what we want them to vote for, provided they even give a damn about that.
In the cold calculus of electoral politics, as long as their opponent next time is more distasteful than they are, no matter what they voted for, they know their seat is secure.
Want to change that? Write them, in longhand, hell, in cursive, e-mail them, call their office and be a polite pain in their nether regions, but make your opinion heard, and not just one or two of us, but all of us, to the point that they don't feel so secure next time primary season rolls around.
@roamer_1 is right, too, in that we have to have those in local and state government slots who can be groomed, even advanced as primary challengers who will be polished and credible enough to have a real shot at providing an alternative to unsuitable GOP incumbents.
Without that, (and honest elections) all else will fail.
