re: #188 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is a sign of how fed up people are with politicians and politics as usual that they come to believe that a complete outsider with a strong will and an iron fist can come in and make everything right again.

I’m sure I’m being totally partisan on this, but I truly think that the current disgust of so much of the general public with “politicians and politics as usual” is because of the GOP.

“Politics as usual” USED TO mean that deals were cut and compromises made in the course of actually doing something. Now, we have no deals and compromises, and nothing getting done, and all because the GOP 1) decided to go all obstruction all the time on Obama, and 2) anyone willing to compromise to get things done has been purged from the GOP.

So, people look at Congress doing shutdowns and brinksmanship games and they get disgusted, and send EVEN MORE EXTREME people to Washington. And the Media, with their “Both Sides Do It” reporting exacerbate the problem.