Unfortunately it's not our elected officials doing the "governing". It's their chiefs of staff that run the show and until that changes, nothing will change in the house or senate.
Dangerous question: “What might our own elected representatives do to bring power back to the people?”
Part of the reason we have representative government is to keep power away from the people. No one likes to talk about this, especially in an age of reinvigorated populism.
The purpose of having an extraordinarily ponderous and slow-moving chamber, like a Senate in a republic is to slow down the creation of laws in order to maintain more areas of freedom outside of government control and even influence. The preference is to let the people work out their own free society.
The playing field for free people has become circumscribed, partly because government has elbowed everyone else out. A slow-moving senate is a good thing at the State level, and at the national level too, especially if we could repeal the 17th amendment, so that the States could jealously guard our freedoms at the local level by repelling growth of the federal power. Some of this has been washed away by 19th century progressivism, but since then the growth of the federal power has been unstoppable.
What I want for Christmas is a full Javier Milei on the Idaho and federal bureaucracies.
Unfortunately it's not our elected officials doing the "governing". It's their chiefs of staff that run the show and until that changes, nothing will change in the house or senate.
Dangerous question: “What might our own elected representatives do to bring power back to the people?”
Part of the reason we have representative government is to keep power away from the people. No one likes to talk about this, especially in an age of reinvigorated populism.
The purpose of having an extraordinarily ponderous and slow-moving chamber, like a Senate in a republic is to slow down the creation of laws in order to maintain more areas of freedom outside of government control and even influence. The preference is to let the people work out their own free society.
The playing field for free people has become circumscribed, partly because government has elbowed everyone else out. A slow-moving senate is a good thing at the State level, and at the national level too, especially if we could repeal the 17th amendment, so that the States could jealously guard our freedoms at the local level by repelling growth of the federal power. Some of this has been washed away by 19th century progressivism, but since then the growth of the federal power has been unstoppable.