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Originally Posted by Lou G
That will never happen.
Even if the party system were to be disbanded, the same people who voted democrat or republican would vote for their "Independent" liberal or conservative.
I much prefer term limits for Congress. That way when they get elected, they would do work for the people who got them elected and not the special interests.
Our founding Fathers never meant for these people to be elected for life.
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Well, there are a number of problems with term limits, which may be worse than the system we now have. For one, even the GOOD representatives are term limited, no matter how much we may want them to stay in office. And perhaps even worse, is that whatever their last term may be, they have absolutely NO incentive whatsoever to please the voters. So they will quite likely only be looking at padding their own nest while on the way out the door. Perhaps the good ones wouldn't, but if the premise behind term limits is because we believe the greater majority of them NEED to be thrown out involuntarily, then we have to assume that the greater majority will play that new system to their advantage.
Seriously, if people who seriously need to be thrown out of office cannot get voted out, then the entire system has gone wrong. Problem is, that if the problem turns out to be the voting public, how do you fix something like that? And if any fixes are attempted, guess who is going to be controlling it all?
Bingo!