Oh lord…
For one congress is not “impotent” rather the opposite. You can say congress is a mess, prone to bickering, partisan, but it’s not “impotent” by any stretch of the imagination. The most impotent thing we have right now is the dick less wonder that is our president. Who despite having the most powerful office in the world and a democratic super majority managed to blow the start of his presidency on a stimulus that wasn’t enough. A healthcare reform bill that was more conservative and to the right of Richard fucking Nixon’s (hahaha), get out run and crushed in the 2010 elections, and for all intents and purposes is one of the biggest jokes to ever hold the office.
Bill Clinton flat out said he would have used the 14th amendment to deal with the budget crisis and told congress to go ahead and impeach him. Because Clinton you know… wasn’t an idiot.
I wouldn’t blame the Tea Party, as stupid as they are they are symptom of the problem, not the root cause of it. The basic problem is that since the 1970’s the Democratic party has become increasingly only about social issues and doesn’t give a damn about the middle class. Abortion, sure gotta keep the feminists! More programs for African Americans but nobody else, sure, gotta keep the black vote. Gay marriage, of course that’s a crisis… save social security and medicare, ehh… fuck that.
But that’s to be expected. The truth is that the major donors on both sides, the ones that you need to win an election, only give a damn about economic issues. Point blank, they don’t want to pay taxes. And the biggest things that eat up taxes… social security and healthcare. They don’t need it and they don’t want to pay for it.
You’re screwed either way you vote.
The Republicans scare the crap out of people with Muslims, gays, take your guns, and all that crap and then eat the middle class alive. The Democrats tell you that Christians, and rednecks are going to get you and that Republicans want to fire poor people from cannons, and then gut the middle class all the same.
The rich don’t give a crap about social issues and both parties are singing the same economic tune.
What do you think will change by voting them out? All the donor money comes from big corporations and Wall Street, it’s not like the next group of politicians won’t be just as bought and owned. Name one politician who can get elected that wouldn’t be?
Partisan name calling aside, what’s the difference? Take out social issues, on which nothing ever gets done anyways… gays will get married through the courts, the states are taking care of legalizing pot, and nobody is actually going to touch abortion… they are all kind of the same. It’s just a matter of how much to fuck the middle class for the top one percent and how nice of a speech you give after you get done fucking them.
Short of limiting the amount of influence the top can buy, which isn’t going to happen, the situation will remain the way it is.
The Tea Party is a mix of the standard "oh crap a liberal is in charge", and Clinton got it far worse than Obama did, and genuine rage at the situation and Wall Street getting a pass. They didn't cause this, they are just the product of it.
