Rigged game

Today is a big picture sort of day.  First, about the blog, and now about the general state of affairs with our politics.  In particular, I want to discuss something about these polls.  In very particular, about the approval rating for Congress.

You see, 90 per cent of them get reelected every time.  What incentive do they have to change?  So the poll they conduct about Congressional approval rating is a really stupid poll.  Nobody is likely to vote against their own representative because it is set up that way.  So what good does it do to have an approval rating which means absolutely nothing in terms of what can be done about it?

The congressional districts are gerrymandered in order to produce the desired outcome.  Therefore, the odds are that you will be in agreement with the general political leanings in your congressional district.  Supposedly, it is against the law, but they can wink at that pretty easily.

I have a theory about the parties.  I think that they have it set up so that the votes are always as close as possible so that there aren't any real differences between them.  On the occasions when there are really significant differences, the differences get smoothed over, or fixed so that there's no real accountability.

It is almost as if the system is rigged in order to produce an outcome that is pretty much in line with past outcomes.  It isn't any wonder then that no problem ever gets solved.

What to do about it?  Stop publishing stupid polls, for one.