Washington Establishment Theory

In this section, they talk about the theory of the Washington establishments. This theory is quite plausible from a common sense standpoint but it is not a fact yet and is still a theory. Then it begins to talk a lot about self-interest and how it relates to groups and the people involved within them and the main groups it talks about is congressmen, voters, and bureaucrats. Morris Fiorina also talks about the meaning of self-interest and how it means the pursuit of a person’s ends regardless of whether these ends are tangible or intangible. Also, it talks about the roles that all of the different people and policies play that are involved in the Washington establishment. Then it begins to talk about the natural selection process at work and how it works in the arena. These congressmen who are not interested in reelection will not achieve reelection as those who want to become reelected. We the people need to focus on the people who want to continue to be politicians and not the ones who don’t want to be because that are not helping our government out at all. We want the politicians who courageously adopt the aloof role of the disinterested statesman, but we don’t and we vote for the ones who follow our wishes and do us favors to help us make more money even if it isn’t for the better of the country. …show more content…
The rise of the Washington establishment is a stirring argument that talks about what congressmen want and how they just want to be reelected because they want to stay in the government and will place all necessary items on the line to be reelected if they will not benefit this country in the long