Two things our Forefathers would have differently than what is normal procedure would be term limits and the removal of the two party system. They knew that if the elected officials represented a ‘party’ that the people would become secondary to the ideology of that party. They also felt that public service was supposed to be ‘service’ done by people who actually cared about their country and not their own wealth. Over the past few weeks the people of this nation has had the extreme reality of the extreme corruption that has been built by people who have had 10, 20, and 30+ years in Congress. Kickbacks and bribes are commonplace. Our Congress has become a cesspool of human sewage where elected people who are supposed to be servants consider themselves above the law. It is time this stopped! If people in Congress are limited to 2-4 terms then they are less capable of building a corrupt empire of money laundering, lies, deceit and even treason. The country has been shocked by the level of bribes, kickbacks and total corruption which have become synonymous with politics. It has been proven that many in Congress are not there to serve the nation but to serve special interests, and in many cases, to undermine the national structure and safety. Their purpose is not America but its destruction. It is time that the people demanded term limits for people in Congress.
If enough voters want to vote for an 80 year old running for office, they should be able to so do. The ‘term limit’ is an election, no other is needed.
That’s not what term limits means is voting for an 80 year-old!!! It’s time to wake up
Its not about the age of the candidate but the fact that some candidates turn “public service” into extremely lucrative careers. The president is limited to 2 terms Representatives and Senators should have limits on their terms in office also. In addition they should not receive pensions after serving for only 5 years. Salary and benefits should end when they leave office.
Because we know votes can be bought an manipulated, counting on the “voters” is no longer an option. Term limits are imposed for President, they should be imposed for Congress.
Got to get AIPAC and adl, and foriegn interest groups and lobbies OUT of our politics. This isn’t their country. It’s OK to limit, restrict, and outlaw outside people and groups from the levers of OUR government.
Given that the voting system seems corrupted I don’t know what we can do at this point that would have any effect. Term limits might help or hinder. What if we get someone doing such a great job that we want to keep them? Then term limits are a hinderance. They might at least inconvenience the money machine we think of as our government, forcing them to change faces more often. It’s the unelected behind the public faces who’ve really got it made. They stay in their position, generally unknown and unhindered, with no accountability.
As for term limits I had an idea. What if each office gets their term limits of say two times being elected. After that they can run again but each time takes an increased margin to claim victory. So, President Trump, for instance , love him or loathe him, has had two terms. If it was a 51% margin of the vote before, let him run again but demand he has 60%,65%,70% incrementally more each election. That way, if someone were overwhelmingly popular we can keep them and the mediocre ones get washed out.
Term limits can only be accomplished by a Convention of States, under article 5. Politicians will never vote to limit their terms in office. The Convention of States is the only way!.
Not enough people care. That’s why they continue to vote for the corrupt politicians (redundancy) they already have and believe in.
Agreed, pelosi and mcconnell remind me of he movie “weekend at Bernie’s”…they are half dead and should be forced to retire.
Agree, the party system started to take shape about 15 years before the Civil War. Slave holders, land holders, business, then money.
I hear you.
Your concern is valid. So frustrating.
The incumbency advantage is huge, overwhelming normal processes.
I am grateful for elections, and ordinarily, I wouldn’t think term limits necessary. But I am open to the idea considering where we are now.
Love to see a Convention of States mentioned here. We need it.
What we need most is representation for ordinary Americans.
What if we massively expand the U.S. House so that each district is 50,000 people?
That’s what was actually proposed in the Congressional Apportionment Amendment of 1789. Check it out. It would make the House huge: over 6600 seats!
Then ask your state representative to bring it before your state house.
Let’s unfreeze the House from being stuck at 435 members since Taft was president. Let’s grow the House.
Absolutely agree! Convention of States might be an answer, but regardless of what anyone fears or believes about that method, term limits need to happen!
Rember that as one leaves another takes their place who, inturn, help perpeuate the graft. I like term limits but that won’t stop the graft ingrained in the agencies and ngo’s etc. Power comes from spending money. A required balanced budget would be the greatest help in controlling graft and spending.
You’re absolutely right. Why would they choose to cut off their access to the government teat? Biden spent over 30 years in public office. I’m challenging y’all to come up with 3 pieces of legislation he is responsible for getting signed into law.
I’m not pointing my finger just at him. There are plenty of others on both sides of the aisle who do exactly the same thing. Americans need to wake up and realize it is not so much Democrats versus Republicans, but it is the American people working to try to make a living v. the elite in government and in power who get all the benefits.
I partially agree with term limits. Forced to make hay while the sun shines so to speak. But as you say it’s the corrupt entrenched parasites, corporations, faceless, nameless hostile elites, ABOVE the politicians that everyone knows is in charge.
More important than possibly a not effective enough solution of term limits is understanding that the parasites at the top DO have names, and DO have faces. And to start naming them.
And once you do start naming them, folks will start noticing a pattern. And the pattern will be, this ruling class does not look like us, does not have similar background, or lineage. And what we are talking about is minority. Conflicting cultures, religions, laws & government models.
So I want you to imagine you yourself are a minority and concious of your minority status IN a country that is not your traditional or historical homeland.
What is most challenging for Americans today is this notion that America is a land founded by immagrants. Even if that were true, the notion is used as an imposition that it was and must remain a country of immagrants. And the imposition goes further to insist that America must not be ruled, or populated exclusively or by majority white European descent.
The minority mindset is faced with 3 choices, 1. Go back to country of origin 2. Assimilate and produce net gains 3. Fight, protest, parasite, seek special protection status privelages, seek to overturn established systems and order of host nations.
What I am specifically pointing to is minorities. And specifically minorities seeking rule in host nations. Not adhering to traditional cultural norms, but self and group interest. It’s natural for people to operate in self and group interests.
It is UNNATURAL for whites in Europe, and in America, Canada, Australia, South America, etc. To abdicate to, or think it’s OK, or say it’s OK for any minority foriegner, or non white to seek special group interest, or rule in white countries from minority motivations. Which they are compelled to do, and cannot do orherwise.
Minorities, and other cultures have their own history, traditions, baggage, and issues. And that’s ok.
Whites have their own history, totherwise, religion, culture, and issues. In large part we have figured out, at least to the point of creating enough self sustaining cultures and nations that others want to take advantage of our surplus of benefits, which in comparison is undeniable, rather than doing the necessary work to correct their own countries flaws and shortcomings, and do the work that we have done to become similar in function to western societies.
America, and Europe, and all other European countries are being weakened and burdened by the influx of diversity. We are not being strengthened and made better by it. We are not better, or more efficient by rewriting the rules and laws becoming more inconsistent, and inefficient, to include and make room and welcoming and making space for all these self interests to coexist. There isn’t coexistence. There is competing interests to the point of conflict and unnecessary costs. Western culture went to all the work to CARVE OUT CIVILIZATIONS for itself, and our way of life. Now our countries and cultures/traditions are becoming diluted and UNCIVILIZED. We are becoming more and more like uncivilized 3rd world countries, rather than ensuring continuance and building upon past glories and increasing greatness of our legacies.
WHY? Are we not all equal? Doesn’t everyone just need the right environment to succeed and be a productive member of our high society?
Apparently not. Apparently there are REAL DIFFERENCES between people groups. Some of these people groups have had hundreds of years or more to assimilate. And they haven’t. I reject the false notion that it’s because whites won’t allow them to succeed, won’t teach, won’t accomodate. Won’t open locked doors… we don’t even have walls to put locked doors in! The fact that foriegn people groups are still here, that they have had every opportunity deserved and otherwise available to them that anyone else has, that even though these opportunities are not but rarely utilized by minorities, that even most of these minorities have made a lifestyle out of welfare, and white middle class taxpayers have not insisted on their contributionto society, but tolerate and fund this welfare FOR GENERATIONS, is all evidence that it’s not whites fault that minorities do not succeed in our cultures. So much so that assimilation, in my view, is not possible, nor desirable.
It turns out people groups are different. Not the same. Not equal. And that’s OK. The experiment, and Lie needs to be over. Different cultures have different drivers and motivations. We are not expanding upon our high trust model, and increasing our norms and standards of civilized society by inclusion of foriegn people groups and multi culturalism, we are diluting our own culture and threatening our own ability to proceed and produce a future worth living by including those who cannot, and will not assimilate, and DO subvert, and undermine what we are, and did make, and do have.
The world is a big and vast area. It is OK that there is and place and space (and now countries) for whites to live and move and have our being and do OUR thing. It may not be what other people do, but it’s what does and has worked for us for thousands of years. And the reason for why it’s not working for others is NOT because we’ve been keeping it all to ourselves and wouldn’t share! We have been more than generous.
Until we are willing to talk about race, and admit that there are critical and crucial cultural and dare I say GENETIC differences between races, and be honest about it, which means that to be honest, there cannot be only discussion in the positive. It’s the negative factors we are being told and forced to overlook, that even medicine and science is aware of and censored from admitting openly, and it is costing us dearly. And costing future generations dearly. To the point where the future generations are giving up and no longer procreating. Becoming minorities in there own homelands. We are burning up our future generations home, potential, and very existence in the present and future because we won’t face facts, or are lying about the facts. And the costs of these lies are passed on to those who don’t deserve to have to pay the costs for our irresponsibility, when it’s our responsibility to be good stewards with facilitating forward what our ancestors delivered to our care and duty. We all need to FEEL THAT, instead of the destructive feminine anti white narratives being conjured.
Term limits doesn’t solve the problem. What solves the problem is that we come to grips with the facts. And those facts should reinform us that we must return to country and nation that operates FOR US BY US.
Term limits in present context cannot ensure that.
The incumbent candidate has an almost insurmountable advantage over any primary challengers. I believe that for many voters they vote based on name recognition, rather than any other factor that could be used to measure the effectiveness of a given candidate. This is the reason elections are so expensive, it costs a lot of money to keep your name in front of the voters, and to capitalize on the name recognition factor. Term limits would help us rid ourselves of these career politicians.
They system is corrupt to the point that term limits are required. 3 consecutive terms for the house and 2 consecutive terms for the Senate.
Term limits will not change anything, it’s just a slight bump in the road to more corruption.
What we badly need is the Recall Referendum. With that we could all vote to kick the person out of office if any corruption by them is detected by the many watchdog groups that follow the three branches of government.
I don’t have a problem with experienced, ethical, and honest officials in government.
Former Senator Mike Gravel did a lot of work trying to get the National Initiative implemented. Check NCID.us for details. It includes recall referendums.