The biggest problem is that most of them have been in office for decades. They’ve watched what has happened over the last 30 40 years, and let it happen. They are just as guilty as anyone else. The best thing that could happen is for most of them to retire.
I’ve been an advocate for term limits on congresscritters since I became old enough to vote.
Those career politicians are quite destructive.
Imagine if all pubbies U.S. House and U.S. Senate members simultaneously pledged to give up their seat and not run again for that seat, or any House or Senate seat, until after the expiration of at least one term of the seat they just vacated.
Imagine the strength of the pubby bench after 6, 8 years or a decade after faithfully maintaining such a pledge.
The pledge would include never raising a single dollar for any future re-election while in office in the House or Senate.
Every sitting pubbie national legislator in D.C. would instantly be immune from the kind of pressure for continuous fundraising that MTG is citing as such a babe of their existence.
This would be an “uber-term limits” pledge with a nod toward potentially running for and resuming membership after at least a 2 year hiatus.
Sure, the donkey party members would never commit to taking any such pledge, since it is antithetical to any member hanging onto power, getting steadily richer and richer due to uninterrupted immunity from prosecution for insider trading. But the moral contrast with the pubbies would be total, and obvious to any honest citizen.
It seems extreme, but it might work to help drain the swamp.
bane of their existence