victor809 wrote:Their goal is to get reelected.
An exact and precise truth ... irrespective of party, feeding at the public trough is a career choice for a huge number of folks ... and strangely enough, we seem to demand that ... an argument against Trump, for example, was that he had no governmental experience ... Hillary was cited as being "one of the most experienced candidates ever" ... but, both were horrible choices ...
Term limits sounds good, but is somewhat less than truly effective ... Kamala Harris, newly elected Senator from CA, for example, was District Attorney in SF, then Attorney General of CA and now a US Senator from CA ... Diane Feinstein, the other Senator from CA was a member of the Board of Supervisors in SF, then Mayor of SF, then Senator ... her sole employment prior to being elected as a Supervisor (think City Council) was as a city employee ...
These professional pols are completely disconnected from real life ... they have zero experience living as you and I do, with real jobs and real daily concerns ... they are the antithesis of what the founding fathers envisioned, a citizen government in which various citizens served a term or maybe two in office, then returned to their normal lives ...
Bottom line truth is, our system isn't working well and is headed south ... I could not imagine how we could do worse than we did in electing Obama ... then came the choice between Hillary and Trump and it was immediately apparent that we were absolutely going to do worse, but with which it wasn't so easy to discern ... and now, we're in the soup ... we're seeing what worse looks like and with nitwits like Chuck Shumer, Nancy Pelosi, Chris Christie and Ted Cruz standing by, things are not exactly looking better ...