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no, but let's say that either Jeb or Hillary wins a couple of terms. If that occurs, then at the end of their term, we'll be able to say there have been THREE different last names in the white house in the last 35 years. Political dynasties are real.

If you have to assume the results of two future elections to make your argument, its not really grounded in fact so much as speculation.

yes, but odds are fairly good that hillary will run against jeb. And half of all presidents have served 2 terms. So it wasn't "assuming the results to make my argument", so much as "pointing out how much worse it will be in a fairly probable future."

It's bad enough now that we've had 4 terms of bushes, and that hillary's a lock for the democratic nomination. my point stands already.

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Congress has a shitty approval rating, but the most representatives get voted into office by a decent margin. People hate everybody else's reps.

Yes, because their reps bring pork from D.C. back to their district. Who does not like a new school built/paid for by Fed money? Voters don't realize that the money is actually the tax money that they themselves paid into the system. It is all very calculated, and in my opinion, is the epicenter of what's broken in the US political system.

I don't know how calculated it is, it seems it's one of those things that developed and people smart enough to realise what's happening decided it's a-ok with them.

But, yeah, the disconnect is huge. I've seen Americans on the internet brag about not taking advantage of unemployment benefits, completely ignoring that they spent years paying into them for that exact reason. And, to be honest, ever since I've started looking at the government as an entity that I've outsourced a lot of my needs/wants to (roads, physical safety, parks, etc), I've been a lot happier paying taxes.

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