On the #DeepDive show on Saturday, I addressed the problem @realDonaldTrump has with the #EpsteinFiles and his efforts to block the release of the files as he promised. As part of my exposition, i showed a sound bite by Speaker of the House, @SpeakerJohnson mocking his fellow Republican House member @RepThomasMassie for trying to force a vote in the House to release the files.
You can watch the whole episode at the link below to see our coverage of that topic, but in the process of the discussion, I took a bit of an excursion on how this situation also exemplifies what is so wrong with politics in America today. We have 435 members in the House of Representatives, each representing an average of about 761,000 ppl. Those voters elect a member to represent * their * interests in Washington. They don't send a member there to do what Speaker Johnson tries to compel: subservience to the political preferences of one or two men.
The democrats, of course, are just the same, and try to compel obedience among their cohort as well, so this isn't a diss on the GOP per se. But in the below segment, I expose a number of the reason why Americans are losing faith with their government, even among the party they generally support. If they continue to mock and ignore American voters, they may one day abandon both parties and seek men and women who will faithfully fight for the local interests, not just for the chosen topics of a tiny minority of elite politicians in Washington.
That day can't come fast enough.
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