You believe that people actually think there is ANY intelligence in the US Senate, or the other place as well.
I certainly do believe there is a lot of intelligence in both houses. Unfortunately that intelligence is almost exclusively deployed in serving the political and financial elite, at the expense of Main Street. That's why Wall Street got bailed out, is now making mega bucks again, the rich are getting richer, but the ordinary people of the US see a flat-lining economy. Your job just got offshored? Too bad, but look at the bonus the execs get. Your privacy just got cancelled, never mind, the TLAs are happy with more power and bigger budgets.
And so it goes on. Whilst the population vote for the donkey & elephant circus, they vote for the establishment, for the mega rich. Only when you start voting in non-establishment parties who don't represent the elite will this change.