How Did We Get a Congress so Blatantly Unconcerned with the Common Good?

When the Republicans try to throw millions of citizens off health care, when they support a tax bill offering crumbs to the middle class and massive dollars to the rich exacerbating already serious economic inequality, when they seek to punish those living in states that do not vote Republican, and when they support an incompetent, mentally impoverished, mean-spirited President who blatantly seeks to help those who voted for him and no one else, we have to ask how things could have gone so wrong. The answer is complicated. Here is a partial answer. We can begin by recognizing that this was not the plan. The Framers sought to assure that members of Congress would be people who sought the common good and could be thought of as virtuous persons. They for the most part recognized that the People would have to possess sufficient virtue to assure quality representation. The citizenry…

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