
Quoting
Taxing Matters
Neither party has yet taken any substantial steps towards any meaningful reform. As they are right now, they will keep nominating the same kind of candidates they always have because their processes are substantially the same they’ve been for decades. Every time a party loses a presidential election there is the gnashing of teeth and the supposed “soul searching” as to why the party lost. But what ever becomes of that soul searching? Ultimately, very little actually every changes. This is not surprising. Large organizations tend to be resistant to change even when they see the need for change around them. Their inertia keeps them going much the same way that they always have. Congress is perhaps the best example of this. Members of Congress know that the public holds them in extremely low esteem and that the public is fed up with the constant political games they play to try to one up each other instead of actually doing the hard work of crafting important legislation that might make things better for the country. Members of Congress say they hate it. They say they hate the bickering. They say they hate the huge amount of time they have to spend raising money. They say that they would rather be able to spend their time doing that legislative work. And yet neither party has made any real effort towards fixing the problems with that institution. And why should they? They keep getting reelected under the current system. Maybe you buy the facade they’ve erected claiming they’ve changed; that they’ve repaired their house. I don’t because behind that facade the same crumbling house remains.