It’s easy for you or someone else that’s honed in on one issue to know a lot, because you’re not trying to deal with 100 other bills and issues at the same time.
I’m not making excuses for them, but it’s not as simple and time free as the general public thinks.
How many bills NEED to be proposed each year? Almost none.
Can they devise a system where they read everything they vote on? Yes.
Ya know… it really doesn’t matter much. If they were pressured to read things, they’d just lie and say they did much like they do now.
For those of us in the general public… That’s really my point here. None of those people are looking out for us. None of them are like us. Just like a group of cops or baseball players will be different from the general public, so will a group of politicians. One big difference is that politicians will lie to you and pretend that they are like you. A lot of people buy in to it. The truth is that democrats and republicans have way more in common with each other than they do with the average person.