How can we make politicians vote themselves out of their jobs? The only way it could be done is to have a national referendum, but that would also require amendment to the US constitution.
The key is to ban corporate lobbying so that politicians cannot put special interest ahead of the people who voted for them. Imagine all the riots on K-street if this were to happen.
We have a broken system. It takes an outsider like Trump who tries to drain the swamp, but he is only one man. Perhaps when things become so bad and people are fed up enough that they’d march on the Capitol Hill, then these corrupt politicians would know that they’d better change.
The Founding Fathers didn’t mean it to be. You were supposed to serve your term, then go back home and take care of your own affairs. They looked at political office like we look at jury duty.
THIS^^ Mandatory term limits (in all democratically run countries). And I would actually like to see pre-requisites like having say 15 years doing real life work etc first. Australia is infested with career politicians.
And to add to this. Politics should not be a career.
amen
You'd have to have term limits for lobbyists too lol
Or we could just jail all of them because lobbying is basically corruption.
How can we make politicians vote themselves out of their jobs? The only way it could be done is to have a national referendum, but that would also require amendment to the US constitution.
The key is to ban corporate lobbying so that politicians cannot put special interest ahead of the people who voted for them. Imagine all the riots on K-street if this were to happen.
We have a broken system. It takes an outsider like Trump who tries to drain the swamp, but he is only one man. Perhaps when things become so bad and people are fed up enough that they’d march on the Capitol Hill, then these corrupt politicians would know that they’d better change.
Except for Trump.
Like he says, he deserves a redo for the time wasted with Mueller and Schitt.
The Founding Fathers didn’t mean it to be. You were supposed to serve your term, then go back home and take care of your own affairs. They looked at political office like we look at jury duty.
Term limits are going to be a crucial accomplishment to get done.
Problem is that the ones to implement term limits are career politicians who will fight tooth and nail to prevent it.
THIS^^ Mandatory term limits (in all democratically run countries). And I would actually like to see pre-requisites like having say 15 years doing real life work etc first. Australia is infested with career politicians.