{"id":2247153,"date":"2024-05-17T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T22:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-filled-washington-dc-with-complete-imbeciles\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:14:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T22:14:32","slug":"we-filled-washington-dc-with-complete-imbeciles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-filled-washington-dc-with-complete-imbeciles\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve inundated Washington DC with utter fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-filled-washington-dc-with-complete-imbeciles%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2247153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-introduces-bill-to-decriminalize-psychedelic-drugs\/\" title=\"California Introduces Bill To Decriminalize Psychedelic Drugs\">early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-trip-to-vietnam-reconfirmed-my-hatred-of-communism\/\" title=\"PRAGER: Trip To Vietnam Reconfirmed My Hatred Of Communism\">20th century<\/a><\/a>, \u2062columnist H.L. Mencken&#8217;s quotes on democracy remain relevant. Recent events in Congress highlight the\u2062 elected representatives&#8217; behavior, leading to concerns about the quality of governance. The focus on sensationalism and fame-seeking in \u2062politics raises questions about\u2064 the true purpose \u200dof representation and the impact on the nation&#8217;s well-being. During the early\u200c 20th century, H.L. Mencken&#8217;s quotes on democracy endure as pertinent. Recent occurrences in Congress shed light on the conduct of\u200d elected officials, prompting worries about governance standards. The emphasis\u200b on spectacle and seeking\u200c fame in politics raises queries about the \u200cgenuine role of representation and its effects on the country&#8217;s welfare.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early in the 20th century, there was a famous columnist known as H.L. Mencken. Two of his quotes are currently quite applicable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Number <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/51436-democracy-is-the-theory-that-the-common-people-know-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">one<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cDemocracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Number <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/37546-no-one-in-this-world-so-far-as-i-know-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">two<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No one in this world, so far as I know \u2014 and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me \u2014 has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I point this out because we live in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-anyone-more-annoying-or-treacherous-than-barack-obama\/\" title=\"Is Anyone More Annoying or Treacherous than Barack Obama?\">representative democracy<\/a>, so when we see spectacles like what we saw in the House of Representatives yesterday, it\u2019s important to remember that these are all elected representatives of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have filled Washington, D.C., with complete imbeciles. This is our fault because we vote for them. The fact is that if you don\u2019t like your representatives, you can always change your them, but it seems as though the American people increasingly like a Congress that is completely unworkable; a presidency filled with numskulls like the current president of the United States; and entire representative agencies of the federal government that are filled with people whose IQs, when combined, might be in double digits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you think I\u2019m being harsh, I present to you the spectacle yesterday, which is not, in fact, from Jerry Springer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is from Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1967-we-filled-washington-dc-with-complete-imbeciles-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yesterday, a giant fight broke out between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the noted intellectual congresswoman from Georgia, known colloquially as MTG, on one side, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the noted intellectual congresswoman from New York, known colloquially as AOC, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Texas on the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can tell this is similar to a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) face-off when the congresspeople are known by their acronyms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The wattage displayed by these three ladies put feminism back about 100 years, as shown by the fact that two of the men who are leading this committee, James Comer on the Republican side, and Jamie Raskin on the Democratic side, could not help but laugh at the idiocy displayed by this coterie of crows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It began when Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted Jasmine Crockett\u2019s fake eyelashes and went downhill from there. AOC snapped, \u201cI would like to move to take down Miss Green\u2019s words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greene: \u201cAre your feelings hurt? Aww.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AOC: \u201cOh, girl, baby girl, baby girl. Don\u2019t even play. Don\u2019t even play. We are going to move and we\u2019re going to take your words down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After MTG said she would agree to take her words down, AOC demanded an apology. MTG refused. Crockett later said to Comer, \u201cI\u2019m just curious, just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody\u2019s bleached-blond, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comer, genuinely puzzled: \u201cWhat now?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A shouting match then ensued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The question about all this is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">why<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">? Why? These are outtakes from \u201cIdiocracy\u201d at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer is because Congress and our representative government have become a performative spectacle for people who are hoping to get famous and rich outside of Congress. That\u2019s what this is. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute wrote one of the most important books of the last 20 years about this \u2014\u00a0about how our representative institutions ar supposed to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shape<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the people who enter them because they are given the grave responsibility of representing the American people, taking care of trillions of our taxpayer dollars, figuring out our foreign policy, and trying to rectify breaches in the social fabric and the social compact. That is their actual job. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But over time, as we have become a more populous and populist country, our representatives have become stand-ins for our various gripes and grievances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so you end up with the dumbed-down version of the American public. I don\u2019t think that this is a partisan issue. I know hundreds of members of Congress and the Senate, both Democrat and Republican, and I can name the number of intelligent people that I know in Congress on less than two hands. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The American people have chosen poorly. It used to be when government did not have insane levels of power over our life, we didn\u2019t actually care who was in charge of the government nearly as much because the government didn\u2019t have the power to control every aspect of our life. Thus, politics was largely relegated to the local level. And when it came to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beijing-foreign-ministry-confirms-safety-pact-with-solomon-islands-officially-signed\/\" title=\"Beijing Foreign Ministry Confirms Safety Pact With Solomon Islands \u201cOfficially Signed\u201d\">federal politics<\/a>, people who were very invested in federal politics tended to be the people who were the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">most<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  knowledgeable, the people who actually cared the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">most<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the people who were the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">most<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  engaged. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But now, it\u2019s become a popularity contest. It\u2019s \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d and thanks to the mass media, you can take dullards and make them incredibly famous. If you want to sell papers, that\u2019s exactly what you do. If you want higher ratings, you focus on the dullards in Congress, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the congressperson who is spending late nights poring over the bills that are being created to shape our lives; that\u2019s the boring stuff. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The people like this. And this is why all three of these congresspeople are significantly more famous than some actual powerful congresspeople who make policy. People now use Congress as a platform for other activities to become famous \u2014 to be on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, to be on various shows on TV. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s not good for America. Americans ought to get off of this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the reality, of course, is that this has pervaded American politics, and it has bled up. The quality of our public leadership is a reflection of the quality of our public conversations. And our public conversations are terrible because they are low IQ and do not involve any sort of actual knowledge base for the people involved. In fact, a quick insult is considered significantly more useful than an actual understanding of the issues at play and the nuances of those issues. The latter things are not important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is one of the reasons why you are seeing re-engagement online with three-hour long conversations with various hosts. There is a hunger in a certain segment of the population for something a little more substantive that has completely gone away for the vast majority of the American public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The American people are casually engaged. They tune in for the last five minutes of \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d before they cast their vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what you end up with is a bunch of people who are getting rich and famous being in Congress and being complete imbeciles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is why you end up with a presidential race featuring an incumbent president who is full-on senile, and it doesn\u2019t matter one whit to at least half the population. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think most people look at yesterday\u2019s debacle in Congress and they\u2019re ashamed of what they see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">should all<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  be ashamed of what we see in Congress because the level of intellectual achievement in our Congress, the level of true engagement with serious issues, is so unbelievably low that you would get a better conversation about what goes on in our nation in a third-grade social studies classroom than you would in a congressional committee such as yesterday\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 20th century, the renowned columnist H.L. Mencken coined two quotes that remain relevant today. The first: \u201cDemocracy is the belief that the public knows its desires and should receive them, even if harshly.\u201d The second: \u201cNo person in this world, so illogical, can&#8217;t govern themselves better than all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":2247154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2148857394.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2148857394.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}