The public has increasingly soured on Congress — and now, some House lawmakers are starting to agree.

With legislating all but brought to a halt and partisanship at an alarming high, members of Congress in both parties are running for the exits, opting out of another term on Capitol Hill to vie for higher office or, in some cases, leave politics altogether.

It is a trend that skyrocketed in recent months — amid a tumultuous 10-week stretch on Capitol Hill — and one that is likely to continue through the end of this year, highlighting the challenges of navigating a polarized, and oftentimes chaotic, era of Congress.

“Right now, Washington, D.C. is broken,” Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) said in a statement when announcing that she would not run for reelection. “[I]t is hard to get anything done.”

  • @[email protected]
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    -11 year ago

    …it’s perhaps more of a concern for some future society that has the courage to devote itself to democracy.

    Oh. You’re one of those people. Nobody here is interested in your accelerationist bullshit.

    • kbal
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      11 year ago

      I’m just a passing pleb who apparently wandered into the angry part of lemmy. Sorry to intrude.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        If I mischaracterized you, then I apologize, but accelerationists and naive anarcho-libertarians have been trolling Politics with points exactly like yours for weeks. They think allowing fascism to happen now is the only (or at least inevitable) solution, and they imagine some future revolution will allow a better society to rise from the ashes, some “future democracy” for those “courageous enough” to make some kind of ideological stand now.

        Nevermind they have no plan to get there except “burn it all down,” and there’s no way to know with any level of certainly what comes after that.

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          Oh right. I just meant it’s a pretty far-out idea and not really relevant to practical politics right now, interesting though it may be. Thanks for the explanation.

        • @grue
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          11 year ago

          He said nothing about allowing fascism to happen now, though.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            21 year ago

            People who support an unsustainable status quo tend to interpret all discontent as support for the worst outcome.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            The bad-faith commentors rarely do, until pressed. This one appears to have been commenting in good faith, however.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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        11 year ago

        I like sortition, and I appreciate you bringing it up. If a position has so much power a random person could screw things up that bad, that position of power needs eliminated or divided.