Is it just me? Or are others feeling like our representative government — of the people, by the people, and for the people — doesn’t really seem to come from the people nor ever do anything for the people?

We know politics is corrupt. We accept that, because the world is corrupt. We accept that because humans are involved, and any time you put humans into the equation, it becomes impure. But at this point I believe the systemic corruption has made any real representation of the people ineffectual, if not non-existent.

Really. When you get special interest money to vote for a bill, and you get special interest money to vote against a bill, you’re just going to go to the highest bidder. And if there’s no special interest money? Well then there’s no representation, of course!

Well, you have all these people who are elected to represent their states… to represent their districts. What do you think happens when you take those people out of those distrcits, and out of those states, and put them into a tiny little city together, with a bunch of high-paid lobbyists surrounding them at all times? Over the course of one term, that district or state may change so much that he’s not even representative of his own people by the end of his term.

This is a fast-paced age. It’s a digital age. It’s time to take the Congress out of Washington and put them back into the states they represent. You don’t need to be in the same building to vote any more. But you do need to be in the state to know what the issues in that state are.

This also keeps the politicians from gathering in one area for easy lobbying. Sure, companies can send lobbyists to all the various states, but then they’re paying hundreds of lobbyists for 635 politicians, rather than just having 2 or 3 in a K-Street office, conveniently poised to bribe — er, I mean consult — all of the Senate and the House in comfort.

This is what we need. The world has moved to a speed that the framers of our Constitution could not have envisioned. Still, it wouldn’t require starting over to catch our policy up to our world. I’m not saying to disband the Congress, I’m just saying it’s time to put them to work doing the very thing the Constitution set out for them to do.

Not only that, but if these idiots actually had to use the technologies they’re legislating, maybe they’d make better decisions. At the very least, they’d understand how it works.