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Agreed, term limits are a must. Too many career politicians who do nothing but have friends in the right circles to keep them in power.
Term limits sound wonderful. But we all subconsciously know the jerks in congress are not smart enough to read or write a bill. They are morons. We all know they are puppets. And yet we still focus all our anger at them.
The last piece of legislation written by congress was sometime around the mid 1990’s. Modern legislation is written on K-Street. K-Street Lobbyists write the laws. Congress morons sell the laws. Lobbyists then pay congress critters huge commissions for passing their laws. That’s modern legislative business in DC.
Pass term limits all you want. Pretend "voting" matters. And then be shocked when the new guys stroll down K-Street to see who will offer them the most cash to pass their self-serving bills... just like the old guys.
Sad but true...
The problem is the front people - the congressional official - has to field knowledge over an area that is 10 miles wide, but the depth of their knowledge is like, 10 inches. It has gotten way too big and the fact they spend a great deal of time fundraising to stay in office means it falls to the minions who remain anonymous. And it is the opposite problem - the congressional official is too old, and much of the staff is too young and inexperienced. But it is definitely a resume builder ' I worked for so and so' can get you into 1) powerful jobs up the food chain or 2) much more lucrative paying jobs. Consider the fact that Mike Flynn's law firm pre Sidney Powell was $1K/hour. You can't say with a straight face they would command that kind of money if they didn't have the political connections.
I read a book a few years ago by doctor who worked a fellowship for one of the senator offices from either WY or MT when Obamacare was being written. He made an observation to a couple of people that the people actually doing the physical writing of the legislation, while bright young eager beavers, knew very little about the topics they were tasked to write about. For example, he was in a meeting and he and another doctor were discussing coronary artery bypass grafts and referring to it by its acronym CABG (medical field loves its acronyms as much as the military loves theirs). The staff lawyer, who is basically in his first job out of law school interrupts to ask why they are talking about vegetables? I get you can't expect someone to know everything about everything, but if you are writing the rules the rest of us have to live by, you should damn well have some knowledge of the topic. When the doctor tells his colleagues this and his frustration, they soberly look at him and reply 'who do you think writes all the legislation now?'