Incorrect. I said I don't know much about Gaetz. I meant that in terms of your statement of "not having respect for him." I did not say that I "know nothing" about the situation. I stated in my previous comment that I disagree with Gaetz on about 90% of this policy ideas. Clearly to disagree with him on policy I must know what his positions are.

Our "smoothly working government" has been driving us into a ditch since the 1980s, and even faster since the 1990s when the Dems jumped on the traditional Rep business gravy train.

The two major parties agree on about 90%, and that 90% is what the oligarchs who pay them want. A 2014 Stanford study showed this empirically.

Since either 2013 or 2014 (when the sequestration thing happened) our congress, and particularly the house, stopped voting on individual bills and started lumping everything together. It was prevalent before then, but became pretty much the only way bills are voted on since then. That is how you get a situation where a member can't vote to help the people in Lahaina without voting to send more money to Ukraine. Someone might be for both, against both or for only one of the two, but FFS those to COMPLETELY unrelated subjects should not be financially tied to each other.

Another thing Gaetz is for is having more time to read bills before having to vote on them.

This is the kind of DEMOCRACY that I financed and voted for Bernie to push for. This is what I expected The Squad to push for. Specifically this is that #ForceTheVote was all about, and where The Squad totally dropped the ball.

I'm not for chaos. I'm for democracy.