Ohh I went there all right, another site devoted to how we are all helpless and being used.
Wow, talk about hidden messages. I wrote it and don't remember that passage. Perhaps you could quote and link?
That somehow the system we have had for the ENTIRE history of our country is a bad one. Same as above.
Feel free to quote it outright. Hell, I will be generous and tell you to pick any post and quote it. Let's face a fact of life, our system may be the best we have, but it is corrupt.
The reason we have bad politicians is because the PEOPLE vote for them. No one forces them to do so. No one forces them to reelect crappy people to office. They CHOSE to do so.
See, we can agree on something.
And in fact your site would in fact encourage the original fear of our fore fathers, that we the people are to STUPID to run our Government and be trusted to elect Presidents or Senators. That only the "special" should vote.
It wasn't a fear of the forefathers guns, it was a fact. You might want to stop here and double check your history as well as the constitution. Those same forefathers explicitly did not write in a "right to vote" in the constitution.
Term limits is a crutch to paint over the fact the people sometimes are to dumb to be trusted to elect the right people.
Who said anyone was too dumb yadablahetc? I suspect this is your opinion and you cannot source it.
It is an unneed crutch designed to protect us from ourselves.
See the above please.
We are and have always been a representative republic. There has never been any law or requirement that the people we elect be frozen into indecision while waiting to hear what the people want.
Whereever did you get the idea that I said or wrote anything counter to that?
We elect them and they make decisions based on what they think is best , for good or bad. What is supposed to happen is if they make BAD decision we vote their asses OUT of office.
I'd say they make decisions on what they think are in thier own best interests. I agree on what is supposed to happen. What are the odds on an incumbent being voted out? Here, let me help you out:
In November of 1998, 401 of the 435 sitting members of the U.S. House of Representatives sought reelection. Of those 401, all but six were reelected. In other words, incumbents seeking reelection to the House had a better than 98% success rate. U.S. Senators seeking reelection were only slightly less fortunate--slightly less than 90% of the Senate incumbents who sought reelection in 1996 held on to their seats. SOURCE
What is supposed to happen is we learn what they think and how they will probably act after we vote them in. BEFORE we vote for them. And we take into consideration at reelection if they did as we felt was reasonable and acceptable, whether they listened to us enough to rate being reelected.
No argument there. How often do you really think that happens?
Term limits is just a crutch to protect us from being stupid and lazy. And when we do find the right people it is a club to beat us with for being stupid and lazy and creating term limits.
I would say it is a tool as opposed to a crutch. A crutch allows you to do something you cannot do on your own. A tool allows you to do someting that you can do, better. Term Limits ensure that no one gets so entrenched that they are virtually impossible to vote out as they become a corrupt piece of the system
