A lot of Republicans would not survive in today's workplace.

[milestogo]

If you make sexist, racist, or homophobic remarks you get a warning from HR. If you make those same remarks on social media, your job is in danger. You pull this stuff more than once, and you are dismissed for bad behavior. You don't get to collect unemployment.

But if a congressperson makes hateful remarks, they are celebrated by their constituents, and can use it in fundraising.

Our government seems to represent the very worst of our society. Its sick, and its getting worse.

[jmbar2]

1. They'd never make it through the interview!

[Haggard Celine]

2. That's why they get elected, and they know it.

That's at least true for certain districts, such as the Paul Gosar district or the Matt Gaetz district. They send those people to Washington so they can say all the awful shit they're not allowed to say. Well, that and they want them to own the libs, no matter the cost. That's all the fuckers ever have to do, so that's all they ever do -- stir shit and raise money from deplorables.

[lame54]

14. It's unbelievable how little...

Actual work they do

It's like the job description has been redefined

[Progressive Jones]

3. A lot of Republicans are people who are perennial misfits and malcontents.

They don't play well with others.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. These idiots could not cut it in the real world

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[DENVERPOPS]

5. I wish

there were a way that she and a bunch of others could be fired from humanity altogether.

They are all despicable and don't even deserve the air they breathe...........

The are sub-human piles of excrement......

[Lonestarblue]

6. How many people could post a depiction of murdering a co-worker and not get fired immediately?

[tenderfoot]

7. A lot of Trump supporters would quit their jobs if they had to work for him

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[Tommymac]

8. We have let elected Government officials think they are aristocracy for too long now.

Time to get back to what the Country's Forefathers believed and enshrined in The Constitution of the United States of America.

Screw kings and aristocrats - We The People Rule. Pols are subject to the law of the land too.

Too many Politicians are not wearing clothes and their peers need to start enforcing The Law and bring them down to Earth.

[dlk]

9. Congress Should be Subject to Workplace Rules

It's absurd, not to mention toxic for anyone to have to work alongside others spouting ignorant and bigoted lies in the media or making death threats. Who is served by not modernizing the congressional workplace?

[milestogo]

10. Asshole Republicans are not served.

Everyone else is.

[dlk]

12. Republicans know how to work the system

There should be workplace protections in congress against death threats, even when they're disguised as a "joke."

[Klaralven]

11. They may think they are speaking for their constituents who can no longer say what they think

[Hortensis]

13. You're kidding, right?

I'm retired and worked from home for decades before that. But -- does no one here work with others any more? A glance around the workplace should expose factional delusion for what it is.

Anyone who did would know Republicans are as capable as anyone else of being good workers and of keeping their mouths shut at work, and with their neighbors. Very few soil their own nests from foolishness, and by far most act like normal, competent adults in public.

Social media sites that can make even Fox-level factional derangement look almost rational are dangerous for those who prefer their versions of "reality" to reality. Remember how to get people to believe the unbelievable? Just keep repeating and repeating until they do? For how that works for people who eagerly seek out the unbelievable, just check RW social media. LOTS of self-made crazies there.

As for the comment about "government," federal is currently dominated by Democrats, 15 state governments have Democratic trifectas and 12 have divided -- meaning Democrats have some control. Surely you didn't mean Democrats represent the worst of our society, right?

[milestogo]

15. Not sure what I'm "kidding about" or why you would think I mean Dems represent the worst.

I'm dead serious. If Congress had an HR department like most corporations, anyone who threatened or expressed contempt for their co-workers would be out on their ass immediately.

Citizen Republicans don't behave that way in the workplace because there would be immediate repercussions - they would lose their jobs.

However, there are no repercussions for a Republican congressperson who threatens or slanders other congressional members. They don't get voted out or censured.

[Hortensis]

16. The reps the people elect should be fireable by congressional employees? God!!!!!

I'm dead serious, too: God help us, except there isn't one.

So many of the suggestions posted here for "fixing" our government are incompatible with democracy, but they would would make sense to the people eager to have tRump for their dictator. I presume they imagine they'd still get to elect legislators, true patriots and defenders of the Constitution that they are, but whenever tRump didn't like one of them -- tweet to HR.

We desperately need good civics classes in school.

[milestogo]

17. Egregious behavior and lack of civility is the new norm in Congress.

That norm is set by Republican behavior towards Democrats. If they were in any other workplace, they would be unemployed very quickly.

All I did was point out how much lower the behavior standard is in Congress than in other workplaces. Civics classes are not going to reach those who are advocating book burning and homeschooling.

[Hortensis]

18. This is a Democratic forum, as in democracy. Unfortunately, civics classes

are only partly useful. People who aren't emotionally fitted for democracy, which is intrinsically liberal after all, tend to discard everything they don't like as soon as the last test is passed. And go to Fox, etc., to learn what feels more right to people like them.

But all people, both those who do care about government of, by and for the people (even a little bit) and authoritarians eager to be relieved of the burdens of sovereignty, will go into life with at least a little understanding of the basic how, what, where, when, and WHY of our form of government.