You know, congress is broken. Because of the elections, congress spends more time trying to get elected than they do actually doing the job we elect them for. We all know it and yet we don't know what to DO about it. I have a suggestion. If every American would stop being too wrapped up in the divisive stuff thrown at us to distract us and started thinking, we could make some HUGE changes.
Imagine an America where EVERY eligible voter voted in every election and kept track of who was in congress and for how long. You know, keep a manila file in your important papers file and every time there is an election, we all would go through the candidates and see who has served for six years. Imagine the American people deliberately voting out congress persons when they have served six years. That's right, six years unless the congressperson does something so egregious they have to be voted out sooner. Imagine the American people TELLING congress that they were doing that. Something tells me campaign finance would be a bit different and congresspersons would be busier working for us than trying to get elected because eventually, they would realize that WE THE PEOPLE have imposed term limits; six years for each one of them. Two years to get their feet wet, two years to hit their stride, and two years to finish up. After that, they are OUT; time for new blood. No more career politicians and good ol'e boy networks; they know they only have six years to get it right AND they would finally suddenly grow some muscles and make the hard decisions because they would NOT be worrying about getting re-elected or pandering to PACs or lobbyists. If we did that long enough, congress would eventually just vote for term limits and be done with it.
What an America THAT would be.
Imagine an America where EVERY eligible voter voted in every election and kept track of who was in congress and for how long. You know, keep a manila file in your important papers file and every time there is an election, we all would go through the candidates and see who has served for six years. Imagine the American people deliberately voting out congress persons when they have served six years. That's right, six years unless the congressperson does something so egregious they have to be voted out sooner. Imagine the American people TELLING congress that they were doing that. Something tells me campaign finance would be a bit different and congresspersons would be busier working for us than trying to get elected because eventually, they would realize that WE THE PEOPLE have imposed term limits; six years for each one of them. Two years to get their feet wet, two years to hit their stride, and two years to finish up. After that, they are OUT; time for new blood. No more career politicians and good ol'e boy networks; they know they only have six years to get it right AND they would finally suddenly grow some muscles and make the hard decisions because they would NOT be worrying about getting re-elected or pandering to PACs or lobbyists. If we did that long enough, congress would eventually just vote for term limits and be done with it.
What an America THAT would be.
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