Pundits like to say the problem with Washington is a lack of bipartisan cooperation in Congress. But we don’t need cooperation. We need representation.
The Cult of Bipartisanship
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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«[C]are about us», i e, care about ordinary people, rather than the banksters the members of the US Congress (the best money can buy) represent ?!! Come on, Ted ; that’s even more naive than envisioning the end of «gridlock» (save when it comes to using taxpayers’ money to further bloat the US military and the (un)intelligence agencies) !…
Henri
One man’s democracy is another man’s anarchy.
Democracy in the service of regular citizens could only be dismissed as anarchy by the ruling class that operates above the law, which ironically is a class that literally acts anarchically.
You claim you want representation, yet you continually endorse policies that will guarantee you won’t get it. Interesting.
I continually endorse the repeal of the Citizen’s United decision, putting a cap on all forms of political endorsement by money, and yanking back a huge amount of all the military forces we have all over, policing the world. I tells you everthin’ I know, over and over, and ya’ still don’t know nuttin’!!! :^)