There is intense populist distrust of elite institutions and demand either to abolish them {as in the case of the Federal Reserve} or to open up their internal deliberations to television and public scrutiny. Ironically, however, Americans when polled show the highest degree of approval precisely for those institutions-the military, NASA, the CDC-that are the least subject to immediate democratic oversight. Part of the reason they are admired is that they actually get things done. By contrast, the institution most directly accountable to the people, the U.S. Congress, receives disastrously low levels of approval {see Figure 24}. Congress is typically regarded as a talking shop where only lobbyist influence produces results and partisanship prevents commonsense solutions.
( Francis Fukuyama )
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