You know, a thought struck me that summarized my permanent dissatisfaction with the US. Representatives engage in bad faith governance that demonstratably harm us all more than if they just went around straight up mugging people, yet they’re able to walk away. They are able to pillage cities, ruin lives, and then move on to other ventures freely.
Yes we can vote them out (with great effort), but even if we do they never really get held accountable for anything they did. They just walk into new jobs with their new connections.
I think we’ve crossed a threshold where we should be saying “Jesus Christ, our representatives are ruining people and should be held personally accountable for it.” But there are no laws against exploiting your constituents in certain ways, and I have no idea how we would create a legal framework to assign liability for damages to bad governance and seek reparations appropriately. I’m scared that the answer is to never end up in a situation where you’d need a system to address widespread bad governance, and that our nation is locked in a death spiral where we no longer have any control.
/rant
