afloweroutofstone:

I feel like the nation’s majority party in the upper house trying to plunder trillions of dollars in public money to line the pockets of the rich through what are effectively post-it notes that the opposition party has limited access to, a move with about 25% public support, is sufficient to say that the United States is in a fundamental crisis of political legitimacy right now. This is what the breakdown of a political system looks like.

This is basically how the Tea Party understood TARP, and reversing “rich” for “poor” but leaving the “bullshit process with 0 consideration for minority input” part intact how they understood Obamacare, if you were wondering how the last decade made sense