[MattGaiser]

Members of Congress behave like mostly unmanaged employees with bad incentives behave.

If you had a team where the manager didn't ever do anything except send copy/pasted messages out via Slackbot and where the workers were in high demand from another manager who could offer them a lot more (as well as threaten their jobs a lot more), would you really expect those workers to be working in the interests of their manager?

As that is the state of American politics today.

Complain about Congress all you want, but fundamentally the people chose them and decide whether or not they get fired. Most people are just absentee managers.