How Congress Has Failed Us

Congress has failed us. Now, before you stop reading this, let me assure you this isn’t a political rant coming from a member of one party who hates the members of the other party. Instead, it’s a treatise on how Congress has failed every single American regardless of party affiliation.

Twenty percent! That means nearly 80% of us do not. In that same Gallup poll, only 4% indicated they had a “great deal of confidence” in Congress, while 93% indicated they had “some,” “very little,” or “none” confidence.

The men and women we send to Congress have forgotten that their role is not to lead us, govern us, or rule us, but to represent us. In fact, the “House” is actually called the “House of Representatives.” It is in the very name of the institution into which we elected them.

Yes, their job is to make laws, but how they vote is supposed to be based, not along party lines, but according to the desires of the people who elected them — their constituents, the people they are supposed to be representing.

For example, national polls show that nearly 70% of Americans are in favor of stricter gun laws*. Regardless of his or her personal standing or beliefs on gun laws, the job of that representative is to vote how the people they represent feel about those laws.

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