I was being channeled

Now, lest you get the wrong idea, let me say up front...I have no doubt that people who claim "channeling" and believe in the Ouija board, read the tarot cards and believe it, live their life by astrology, etc., are...frankly...misguided or else complete idiots. Your choice.
So when I say Rogers was channeling me when he said what I am about to quote, I mean it strictly for comedic effect. An effect which is much funnier when you realize he died 36 years before I was born. Still not funnier, but perhaps less unfunny.
"Now, they wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the Majority of the people of the U.S. That would be a Cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have a million things that have nothing to do with the merit of the Bill. They first must consider is, or was, it introduced by a member of the opposite Political Party. If it is, why then something is wrong with it from the start, for the opposite side does has a catch in it. Then the principal thing is of course, 'what will this do for me personally back home?' If it is something that he thinks the folks back home may never read, or hear of, why then he can vote any way he wants to, but Politics and Self-Preservation must come first, never mind the majority of the people of the U.S."

The Autobiography of Will Rogers, selected and edited by Donald Day, Peoples Book Club, Chicago, 1949, p. 97

He really nailed it. Government is not, and has not been for some time, about what is right and good for the country but instead on what will get a vote.
Here is an idea for a political campaign. Instead of talking about what would happen, having pointless debates that don't show who would be a better candidate but do show who sometimes thinks quicker on their feet, run a campaign this way:
The votes from the previous term are laid out in front of each candidate. In addition, any legislation in one of the committees is laid out. Without aides, without party wags, without backdoor deals, have them vote and explain that vote. Then people could see what they actually believed. Of course, that would require more integrity than any politician I have seen outside of Al Mobley posesses, so we will stick it next to "The Neverending Story" and other fantasy stories.