How Do Gridlocks Influence The Government

If the United States government was designed to be the best for the people, why does it cause so many problems in the lives of the citizens today? In the papers today it is uncommon to not find some article talking about some issue that is going on in politics. The government has lost many of the original principles that the Founding Fathers had in place to make sure the government’s main goal was to keep the country good and safe for the people. Problems facing the government today are what has caused this loss in principles, and ushered in a an era of gridlocks, corruption, and corporate influence on the government.

In Congress, issues have become tougher to solve because of gridlocks. Gridlocks or stalemates happen when an issue is voted upon and it ends in a tie. These gridlocks make it so that problems don’t get solved. Congress has become one of the battlegrounds of politics, because the Democrat and Republican parties have become so greatly …show more content…
All these advertisements cost money for the Politician to have them up, and this money is provided by the corporations. These corporations have lobbyists who give gifts to the politicians so that the corporations can try to sway the ideas that the politician has (How corporations influence the government?). The lobbyists try to get the politicians to make decisions that will benefit the corporation instead of the people (How corporations influence the government?). After the corporations provide money to the campaigns of the politicians the corporations have more access to the politicians than the public does, and often the corporate is able to make their ideas heard while the people never even get a real chance to have a say in what happens (How corporations influence the government?). The ideas being planted in the heads of all these politicians also helps with the corruption of the