If there are no persons - office holders, voters, civic leaders - who are willing to enforce personal accountability with consequences, there are no checks and balances.
If the members of Congress won't hold themselves accountable, it's up to us as voters and citizens to hold them accountable.
It's up to the Press to shine sunlight upon the back alleys of Government.
The ultimate accountability would be term limits and age limits as an Amendment to the US Constitution.
The Founders wanted citizen legislators, not career politicians.
It's obscene intergenerational tyrany for Reps, Senators, and Federal Judges to hold the same office for 30+ years.
Our polticial system is broken at two main choke points - an over-consolidated, corporate Press and the two political parties, Dems and Repubs.
Media conglomerates need to be broken up and ownership made local again.
I don't know what to do about the parties. The State and National Committees discourage primary challenges to incumbents, which stifles competition of ideas. I think grass roots Dems and Repubs have to force insurgent primary or independent candidates upon the system to break the iron grip each political party's entrenched interests.
The DNC and the RNC are playing to not lose. Trump beat both by playing to win. Insurgent candidates winning and incumbent candidates losing on a large scale is what is necessary to break out of the Legislative malaise of the past 25 years.
Americans need not revolt against the Government, yet. They need to revolt against the Press and the Party Establishments. America's legislative malaise is caused by the tyranny of low expections placed upon it by the voters, the parties, and the Press.
We are 5 months into FY2025, and there still is no FY2025 Budget. That's unacceptable.
