Our rulers are a lost cause! Let’s bring them down to earth where they can visit with us serfs. 

 

The whole batch needs to be turned out to pasture and replaced with a new corruptible batch of liars, cheats and worse.  If we did that every election cycle we could tilt the playing field back toward level at least for a while before the special interests got their hooks into the new batch.   

 

That may not do much except make the special interests work harder and spend more because they would have to recruit on a continuous basis.  But at least there would be a chance of getting the peoples’ business done part of the time before the new batch was effectively corrupted. 

 

That is the only solution to “human nature in the power envelope of the beltway”.  The problem is as old as the species, but it is documented most thoroughly for us to study in the ancient (not the current) Roman Empire. 

 

It seems to me that the solution is:

  • term limits on congressional seats;
  • a blackout period of at least one term on lobbying;
  • and at least a two term ban on re-election. 

I would like to see a serious grass roots effort to implement this as law.   

 

Now as with anything the law of unintended consequences is in play.  While I don’t see the downside to this, there has to be a downside.   

 

Discussion folks?  Help me out on this.