Poll: Majority believes government doing too much

[Colin]

Americans believe that political representatives are:

* Doing too little
* Doing too much
* Too out of touch
* Too interested in being re-elected
* Corrupt
* Ineffective
* Wielding too much power
* Using too little power
* Abusing too much power
* Happy to kick a puppy if the chance presents itself

...unless, of course, it's their popular incumbent.  Then it's someone else's fault.

Ah gotta love the American people. I've come to believe most of the lot are completely incompetent and nearly mentally handicapped.

[Colin]

... a new CNN poll finds most Americans still agree with the bedrock conservative premise that, as the Gipper put it, "government is not the answer to our problems -- government is the problem."

Hallelujah!

And then they vote to re-elect their congressperson because it's different when they're getting the government funding...

You can't really expect the general public to have a coherent ideology.  A big chunk will probably just believe the simplest statement given to them because they don't feel like thinking about it.  Most people are not political junkies on an internet forum.

Then I say we have a internet forum political junkie-ocracy. Which means we internet political junkies decide everything, we elect everybody, and we are the only candidates. That should work.