[The Urban Sombrero]

It is true that the object in politics is to win elections, but how you win does, in fact, matter.

The reason that Congressional approval numbers has been so low for so many years is in large part due to the tactics employed to get incumbents of both parties re-elected with OUR money. Gerrymandering district lines to create as many safe Republican and safe Democratic seats as possible and the phony campaigns where nearly every Republican campaigns as a conservative and nearly every Democrat poses as a moderate, have understandably soured most Americans on their federal government.

The fact that most of the current members of Congress, the current occupant of the White House, and both major presidential candidates have been active participants in a corrupt electoral process is not a good reason to accept that the current system is the best that we can do without a whimper. Anybody old enough to have watched the way that the Watergate scandal was handled, including the firing of a young lawyer named Hillary Clinton for her unethical conduct, knows that our nation is capable of holding crooked politicians accountable.

I don't disagree with your good post here. Politics is rough and tumble. So is human nature. I think most of the time a society gets the politicians that reflect its values, its inner core, for lack of a better way of putting it.