They pass massive bills not knowing what they contain, and even worse amend them at the very last second with verbal votes to amend containing god knows what. During the budget bill McConnell just rammed through what is effectively a hemp ban amendment which no one seemed to know about up until the point Massie forced a vote to on whether to take it back out, at which time a large number of people who had at all times been vehemently against anything like a hemp ban bizarrely voted the exact opposite for reasons that they've made almost entirely opaque.
None of it makes any fucking sense. The fact things wrapped up in mega bills basically breaks any semblance of a democratic system; either you vote for the entire package, or the entire government breaks, or your competitor gets to slam you for hating on the children because you had to defund them in order to avoid doing some other terrible thing.
None of it makes any fucking sense. The fact things wrapped up in mega bills basically breaks any semblance of a democratic system; either you vote for the entire package, or the entire government breaks, or your competitor gets to slam you for hating on the children because you had to defund them in order to avoid doing some other terrible thing.