From my experience, and from what I've heard from Congressional insiders, most of the people going to Congress are good, hard-working, intelligent people who really want to solve problems, but once they get there, they find that they are forced to play a game that rewards hyper-partisanship and that punishes independent thinking.
自らの経験に加え 議会内部の関係筋から聞いたところでは ほとんどの議員は真面目な良い人で 頭も切れて 本気で問題に 取り組もうという志を持っています しかし いったん議員になると 他党の糾弾を奨励し 個々の考えを罰するゲームに 参加させられてしまうのです