First of all, Washington is nothing more than a district; it isn’t evil or a person to run against. In fact, people do actually live in Washington, DC. People work, they go to school, there are sports, and its normal, not just some arbitrary piece of land that happens to have governmental buildings. This is such a delusion; Washington is the 24th most populated place in the United States with a growing population of 646,449 residents, not including the people who commute there on a daily basis. Even if there were 535 people who are not completely surround by “normal” people all day, the rest of the people that work on the Hill or in the D.C. area are normal people. They have lives, car payments, kids, and mortgages and have to worry about the same issues as every other America. There is no shortage of people to be disconnected from. Second of all, it’s just an easy target because it’s the Capital. If all of these buildings were in different states and not centrally located this term would not even exist. This idea of evil Washington is propaganda fueled by the media and those that are fooled by ignorance. The people who believe in this nonsense are the same people that give Congress a low approval rating because they don’t know how Congress works. The people who believe in this are the people that have never stepped foot on Capital Hill, never talked to anyone who works on the hill never been to their Members’ office and probably don’t even know who their Member is.
Conclusion and Solutions
When looking for research on how accurate rates of congressional approval are, research was sparse. This is a startling realization considering there are certainly more people that suspect some flaw in the ratings. This is especially evident...
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...in the coming generations, with education having such an emphasis on math and science and less on history and social studies, to see how the view on Congress and approval ratings will change. How low do approval ratings have to fall for there to be more research conducted on the education of Americans, not the job of Congress? While and apathetic American can seem insignificant, many apathetic Americans can cause the entire nation to become paralyzed. The obstructive beliefs that politics and the political atmosphere are boring and unimportant need to be rehabilitated. When these beliefs go unchanged it results in backwards thinking which results in backwards doing. In order to change the political system and participation a national attitude adjustment is first necessary. Corruption ultimately occurs because apathetic people fail to police the government properly.
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