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No I think OP was pretty clear in what they actually meant and it wasn't what you said.

This current GOP led circus known as the 118th Congress is widely considered one of the most (if not THE most) unproductive, dysfunctional Congresses in history.

And when all they do is sit around and whine about how one side is "weaponizing" the government (ignoring the fact that the side in question is them) or Socialism this or "Biden bad", its really not hard to understand why.




Considered by who? By which metric?



> Here’s one about bills passed

Judging a legislature by how many bills it passes is like judging programming productivity by lines of code produced, and has the same issue that Edsger Dijkstra identified with the latter: it should be lines spent, not produced. "The current wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger."


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>By one-sided political propaganda Yea because things are only factual if they agree with your chosen team policies.

Metrics on how many bills this congress has passed by this point in term vs previous ones are not hard to find. But you'd just dismiss that as "political propaganda" because it disagrees with you.


What do these metrics measure? Productiveness - no.

Consensus? Yes. Which means... there is a lack of consensus currently. That's how it is supposed to work.


Progress for the sake of progress is dumb. If Congress passed 1 million new laws it would be progress, but would anybody want that?




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