Congress reverts to childish antics with no adult supervision in sight
I wish now I had paid closer attention in my college Psychology 101 course, especially to developmental psychology and how people's behavior evolves in stages over time. At least I know from friends who have raised children about the difficult early years (as parents and as children). The reason I am now probing these depths is a disturbing trend I am witnessing in the U.S. Congress, and that is its seeming reversion to those pre-school years in which children are temperamentally volatile (remember "the terrible twos?"
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When I first started school, it was in a small rural town that had no kindergarten (German for "garden of children" . So, I was deprived of that brilliant innovation from the 1800s that was designed to socialize children before they took on more rigorous educational responsibilities. Fortunately, I do not recall whether that left me more of a "spoiled brat" in first grade or whether I had simply moved-on to my more mature stage of "the serious-sixes and -sevens." At least my parents did not have any saved reports from my first-grade teacher that read, "Does not play well with others." But between our teachers and parents we were nurtured and encouraged to get along with our classmates, both in class and during recess, so that our learning experiences were more fruitful and less contentious.
What we are observing in Congress today is not necessarily a new phenomenon. Parties, since the beginning of our republic have had their periodic "hissy-fits" and angry exchanges -- the most notable during the lead-up to the Civil War. But today it seems such behavior is more the new normal without the adult supervision around as there was during our school days.
Party leaders are now out front, leading their pack against the opposing pack with often embarrassing results in the public eye. It's as if they all have all been coached to parrot their favorite political TV pundits to grab and hold their partisan base's attention.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-reverts-to-childish-antics-with-no-adult-supervision-in-sight/ar-AAMBVUR
That's what you get when you put a bunch of trustafarians in charge who've never had to do an honest day's work in their lives.
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