[Mouton]

Yes, good article. The disconnect between the voters and the inside the beltway crowd is not so much a disconnect between them but one of a difference between their goals. I have been beating this to death for sometime. If that whole place disappeared, we would all be better off for it. Gone would be the hucksters, the hangers on, the bribers, the power brokers and their acolytes. When we moved from a citizen government to a “professional” government it was the kiss of death for the republic IMO.

[arthurus]

Two Amendments might restore the Republic. Limiting Congressional and>/i> Presidential terms to ONE term is one. That would drastically reduce the financial value of the Congressmen to the corporates and limit the damage the President can do. Return the selection of Senators to the State Legislatures thus giving them back State Sovereignty and the representation of State interests in the Congress as the Founders determined was necessary.