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Rausch Chaos Syndrome
Rausch explains all that has happened and why American politics is on the track of ailing now and in the future. Rausch explains the future looks like lawmaking is at an absolute standstill. Absolutely nothing is getting done in Congress and in the furthermore in the senate. According to Rausch future predictions regulatory discretion has reached a level that Congress has now viewed as dictatorial. The senate Rausch explains is a mess without any lawmaking and they currently hold the personalities of being wannabe presidents. At this future outlook, there is currently no political class, which is not a good thing for the American citizens. Also, Rausch explains in the future the economy will be a disaster and the United States has defaulted …show more content…
This has now left the system vulnerable to viruses like the Tea Party, and the current predicament is the latest to show that. Rausch in his article calls for us to return to establishment politics. Rausch believes the chronic decline in our current political system long predates the 2016 presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. And after 10 rough months of watching the spectacle unfold, we finally have a diagnosis that Rausch presented and it is called chaos syndrome. Rausch explains how we got here in short, by weakening entities that historically held politicians accountable and prevented naked self-interest. Rauch suggests an unorthodox treatment for this new normal: the return of the establishment. He argues that our most pressing political problem today is that the country abandoned the establishment, not the other way around. Rauch says we can escape chaos syndrome if we strengthen parties. Strengthening the parties is not an easy task. But to accomplish this task you would have to lift all donations to the party, which probably drive the money to the …show more content…
I think not, because we are in this mess because of the outsider movement that has galvanized the American people. But, I can also look at the flip side and see Rausch argument where he wants all the parties to build up strength because at the moment there is currently no positive mojo on either side. The Democratic and Republican Parties are currently weakened, but are defiantly not dead which is why it is very reasonable to rebuild these institutions.
If and when we try to build up these two major parties, we need to keep in my the anti establishment people. We saw many people over the last year disagree with the establishment and wait for the collapse of these certain parties. Many wanted the collapse of the party so they can rebuild from the ground up and get the phony politician out of Washington. There is always going to be positives and negatives in politics, but the answer lies within the party and the leaders of that

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