The problem is that Congress doesn't represent the people. It's biased toward the older, wealthy, white, Christian male. Everyone else gets marginalized. Voting =/= representation.<p>Math gave us the solution on how to get a representative sample. It's called random sampling. If we replaced Congress with 1 house made up of 1,000 randomly selected citizens it would solve almost all of our problems. No more corruption; lobbyists, corporations, and special interest groups would have no power, since they have nothing to offer. Greater equality; everyone would have truly equal representation. Currently men have more power than women, white people have more power than minorities, citizens of Wyoming have over 60x more power than citizens of California (in the Senate).<p>Most of the problems with government have come from mis-representation. The people are slow to get into wars, quick to get out of them. The people favor helping the poor, Congress favors the rich. Fix representation, and you fix Democracy.
"Any fool can sprout eloquent malarkey and think himself smart."<p>Maybe don't misuse cliches while calling other people fools for doing what you are currently doing.