Seem to remember past Congresses getting more done. Less gridlock. What is different today? How about military service?
Many of the Senators and Members of Congress in the 1950s-1970’s were veterans. Few are today.
When you enter the military service, you get tossed into a true melting pot. You end up working with people totally foreign to you and your background. You best learn how to accept others and get along with them. You are forced to have many things in common, including the air you breath (in a squad bay full of farters). All of this conditions you to work for a common goal.
Today? From my state, Colorado, one veteran.
Maybe I’m way off base. To me, we now have individuals more concerned about their narrow self interests than the common need for a strong country. They have never learned to, nor had a need to, work as a group.
Solution? Damned if I know.
1 comment:
Good point, and NO good answer here, other than elect veterans... Sadly, most of them are too smart to run for that pigsty in DC...
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