Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday that America ā€œis not sending their best and brightestā€ to represent them in Congress. ā€œSometimes you literally just canā€™t believe like, these people are makā€¦

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    The Tea Party movement really started this. It was like uneducated voters got together and went ā€œHereā€™s a candy-date that doesnā€™t know nothing! Theyā€™re just like me! VOTED!ā€

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      They didnā€™t start it at all, they just modernized it. Reagan was clearly not bright and yet kept getting higher and higher into office.

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      I really hate to break it. But people have been fucking dumb in governments since before Chieftains were the common official. Source: four good roman emperors.