Which is precisely why we need to make it nearly impossible to be a "career politician". Start with a combination of term limits and forbidding them to exempt themselves from any law they pass; add strictly enforced penalties for any degree of political corruption.
“Which is precisely why we need to make it nearly impossible to be a “career politician”. Start with a combination of term limits and forbidding them to exempt themselves from any law they pass; add strictly enforced penalties for any degree of political corruption.”
All good in theory, but the system has been perverted. Who do we need to pass these laws? Career politicians. How does one get to be elected to high office? By gaining support of career politicians and becoming one of them.
The gains will come incrementally, and slowly. We don’t have the time. Liberalism will cause a collapse long before the system can be repaired.