Fix It
February 15, 2010Notice how screwed up our little corner of democracy is lately? We go from a dictatorial President bent on concentrating power in the executive branch and a congress too timid to stop him, to a President that embodies the spirit of bipartisanship and a congress unwilling to work with him. There is a word for this in the common vernacular: broken.
In the last two decades, we’ve gone exactly nowhere in terms of domestic policy. Health, environment, infrastructure… They’re all stuck at points of contention over twenty years old. The only thing it seems we as a country can get behind any longer is WAR.
How do we fix this? Well, step one in a multi-part fix is to BAN INCUMBANCY. Term lengths would need to be adjusted out a bit to make this workable, but I firmly believe that banning sitting public officials from running for office will change the nature of the beast in a positive way. My logic is that, by removing from office those who view legislating as a career instead of an honorable position of representation, by deleting the constant desire to pander to groups responsible for securing your future financial and political status, we can get back to the important business of running this country.
Sure, there are other factors, such as term limits, that need to be considered for this to be an effective fix, but we can iron that out as we go. Step one is to oust these career legislators; or, at least, weaken their grip on our government.
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