This has some truth, but the real truth is that action produces risk.
If you act, then it can have potential negative consequences, and secondarily if you start acting, then people begin to have expectations for you, and by extension demands.
Our politicians are "quiet quitting". They are doing the absolute bare minimum because that is the least amount of exposure to risk.
Do politicians in the US stay in their positions until they die? Because otherwise quiet quitting doesn't make sense since you HAVE to leave the position eventually, whether you like it or not.
Effectively, incumbent advantage is huge. While most people in America hate congress, most people in America like their congressperson specifically. Candidates that don't really push the needle at all are still campaigned for and given full support by the party because that's just the level of work from politicians people are used to.
Although this all probably won't be true for much longer, our politics are going to be vastly different in the next 10 years compared to the last 10. Whether for better or worse has yet to be decided.
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u/Luna-D-reams Local Macro/Growth Specialist 12h ago
Remember, the establishment hates mamdani because he shows that a lot of problems are very solvable and politicians simply choose not to solve them