Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Congress is dysfunctional.
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.
Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.