Term Limits: The Only Way to Clean Up Congress - opinions?
https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/term-limits-the-only-way-clean-congress
Not really---the people who are presently elected to Congress are there because the electorate who put them there are poor judges of whom to vote for.
And everyone knows what "floats."
Unless we somehow develop an educated and informed electorate, we will continue to have the types of leaders we have now.
But as Alexis de Tocqueville commented in his book, Democracy in America, the people living in democracies tend not to want to do the things which will preserve the democracies in which they live.
So, since I seldom find the necessary hunger for education and the abilities to chose more wisely that that education engenders----well, I just hope this downward slope we're on just levels out.
There is no single do-all, end-all solution. But what exists now surely is not getting it done.
We can see what the lack of term limits produces: Entrenched partisanship and fruitless gridlock.
The biggest problem is that the very individuals whose terms would be limited are the ones who vote it into law.
There is another, more effective alternative, though also rather unlikely: better informed voters who show up on election day to vote the chumps out.