Has our government become a system "of the nuts, by the nuts, and for the nuts"?

I think the problem is that the crazy people are the ones with the most time on their hands. Regular people, working their jobs and raising their families, don't have time to go to Washington and hold up signs protesting something. There are a lot of things I'd like to protest, but I can't afford to fly where ever the controversies are.

I can't even donate to organizations I support. So the media only covers the crazy people and the government only hears them.

Communitarian I am sure it is “government of the greedy, by the greedy, for the greedy, forgive me if I am wrong. " If you are nuts its ok because you just get invoked, make a noise, get involved and at least make an attempt to make your leaders accountable. You should get greedy, sorry I mean get active or it really is government of the nuts, by the nuts, for the greedy and not what you might think.

Well, not the whole government. More just the primary campaigns.

I think you might have nailed the answer while posing the question. Insanity is simply a perspective and apparently the nuts have taken over and are playing to the nut lobby. WB.

Sadly, I personally think, that this speaks as much of our vast and varied population as it does of those we elect to represent us. If s h I t runs downhill, it is packed from the ground up!

Con-sidering That! Many in Con-gress Con-sider Con-gress a QUO-RUM for their Personal Perks and Pork barrel Legislation of by and for their Con-stituants and their Corporate Military Industrial Con-Plex.P.S. Please excuse the Nuts In office! For they know -"Nut" - what they do!

I think not. The only really big time nut is the extremely rich and powerful George Soros. Most everyone else in big government is just greedy and self-serving.

Our representative government has deteriorated into practically an oligarchy because of the marriage between big government and big business (which includes big banking), and, a generally apathetic and uninformed public (check the voting record of American voters since 1950). The lobbying system is really a bribery system. And unlimited Congressional terms are the foundation of cronyism.

The entrenched corruption, now so prevalent in U S Government, is, in my opinion, approaching a point of no return. The only nuts will be us if we let Soros' protege stay in the White House another four years. Remember, the definition of insanity, according to Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Our system indeed needs revitalizing and while all of them are not nuts, a great many of them are shortsighted and prejudiced. It is very clear that anything the President does even if previously agreed upon by mainly Republicans will be found to have faults. On the other hand all this crazy wrangling is petty selfishness.

Yep but they are smart nuts..... able to control and control they do.

I thought it was bananas, by bananas, for bananas. Mind if you ask Herman Cane, he would probably say for the immigrants, by the immigrants. ( Cane is very anti immigration and wants to electrocute them apart from the fact he wants three page bills because he does not want to read long bills.

God save us all from Cane please)In reality it is of the Common People, by the Politicians and for the Wall Street.

I'm not sure that our system is any different than it has ever been. They say that it is government for the people, of the people, and by the people. The problem is, they don't consider us the people.

We are just there to fight the wars and pay the bills. In my opinion, it's been like this since 1776 when this nation was born and said, Pay no taxes to the king, pay us instead.

More like of the greedy, by the greedy and for the greedy; or of the power mongers, by the power mongers and for the power mongers. Nuts would be saying that there wasn't a purpose and the purpose is vague. Unless you understand the greed and power grab is more like two mothers in a mall fighting over the last I pod in the store two days before Christmas.

Each has to have it for their kid and the whole meaning of Christmas isn't in the room.

Just look at Nancy Pelosi and listen to her speak. I would say that she is at least one of the nuts.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.