What Will It Take To Trigger Some Cultural Adaptations In This Country? We're Long Overdue.

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

Video too.

From FDR to Obama, John Dingell rates the presidents

This story illustrates, indirectly as well as directly, much that's wrong with our approach to shepherding adaptive public policy. Some immediate thoughts, while reading this.

1) too few get experience or practice at legislating (only kids of politicians & rich people get to be unpaid pages & interns in Congress)

2) too many Congresspeople follow their relatives, or mentors? (may be changing?)

3) the turnover & diversification rate in Congress is far too slow (no one should be irreplaceable; resiliency means many are capable of taking over on a moment's notice; Congress is no longer representative of our changing electorate in all 50 states, regardless of ethnicity, which shouldn't matter to a melting pot)

4) Congress itself is too small, and too easily co-opted by ridiculous things like campaign finance

That's just outside of the many inside insights that Dingell mentions. Read the article to hear his many interesting observations. Will this be enough to make more people think?

Makes you wonder what it will take to trigger some cultural adaptations in this country. We're long overdue.

Will we adapt?

Or will we stop ourselves in our cultural tracks?