General Discussion

...to decide what they want and then do what it takes to get it.

It's fucking that simple. A binary system of government, but the internet and media will tell you that they're a political entity that knows something something, instead of the people doing the actual work, like we're going to vote in a year on their podcasts instead of endeavor to achieve a majority.

If you muddle that reality with bullshit, you'll get the same result as the last time people thought diverting from fighting republicans to navelgaze and dissemble was some genius political move.

..stepping back out again...

Again, as I told the poster above, this kind of reply doesn't address the op at all, and I don't have time or interest to dance around the effort I chose to relate here (or Lawrence and what he related from his own years of actual experience in the halls of Congress).