Frustrated Republicans accuse Paul of forcing pointless shutdown

BY JORDAIN CARNEY @ TheHill.com - 02/08/18 11:05 PM EST

Apart from the Hastert rule and other idiosyncracies, your comment strikes me hard like this: this country would run so much more smoothly if we didn't have so many districts sending radicals of various persuasions to the House.  There really is majority consensus on a lot of things. The problem is the result of gerrymandering, really, intended to make ideological districts. Instead of House Reps actually representing a majority in a relatively integrated geographic area, you end up with flies in the ointment.

You'd still have red vs. blue, and country mouse vs. city mouse, of course, but you wouldn't have so many nut cases bound and determined to stymie day to day governing in preference for some agenda the majority in this country doesn't really agree to. Radical change was meant to be fostered from the ground up, protests and other ways of culture change resulting from freedom of speech, and the courts interpreting challenges to the laws made by Congress. Not by constantly keeping governing from happening because there are so many in Congress that don't represent majority will but have some kind of special agenda. Gerrymandering is the major reason for the constant dysfunction.