Please explain how continued support for the parties candidates which have been in office while these laws were enacted will help the problem. There must be a fundamental shift in voter thinking and that is unlikely to happen as long as the two-in-one party system of today remains.
Pelosi is probably a good example of my argument. If she, as the Democrat on her district's ballot, were not elected it would most likely be someone from a further-left fringe party. Her constituents tend to be more focused on what they want than most.
I think we are in agreement here. There are certainly elected officials in office who did not support all the laws passed in Congress. The way it works, they only have one vote and they have been outvoted by the opposition. We need to send more of the opposition home and keep the folks who accurately represent us in Congress.
Elected officials certainly do cross party lines to support legislation that is favored by the people who sent them to Congress. As an example, Dan Boren was one of three Democrats who voted to repeal Obama Care. I live in his District and I know that vote represented the thoughts of his District.
He also voted against Nancy Pelosi for Minority Leader, again representing his District. He has voted for her in the past, but he has learned that is not what his District wishes, so he changed his voting pattern.
Unfortunately everyone is not a conservative, like I am, so we will always have progressives or liberals or whatever in Congress. But most of the nation is conservative, based on most voting patterns. The problem is that we conservatives do not get out the vote as effectively as the opposition side, so we don't win the elections in every case.
The last election shows that conservatives can get the job done if they are motivated and we can get those out of office who fail to represent the folks back at home, see the large number in the House who went home.
