Posted on 03/21/2021 6:38:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
I don’t think you ever want to have a Constitutional Convention. God knows what’s lurking in the sidelines.
No, not now or then a solution. Term limits shift power from the elected idiots that we know to behind-the-scenes administrators and office staff that we don’t and would not know. No one has ever explained how term limits would not cause that shift the the Washington workers and, more importantly, how to prevent it.
When the Founding Fathers first drafted the Constitution setting out the ground rules as to who could be a senator or congressional representative, they couldn’t easily have foreseen the advanced life spans to which we have aspired.
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They did foresee the dangers of having a President with divided loyalties, so they required a natural born citizen and excluded the children of foreigners and we can’t even get anyone to uphold that.
There would be no need for term limits if we simply enforced limits on the power of the Federal government.
I don’t need no stinkin government.
And, quite cleverly, the backers of the coup are not visible. The old man they have put in office is a feint, a smokescreen.
Clever because you can't fight an enemy that you can't even see.
I don’t think you ever want to have a Constitutional Convention. God knows what’s lurking in the sidelines.
STRICT PARAMETERS set before proceeding. Secure the ballot box. Otherwise NO GO.
Working in public/civil service should be treated like the military. You do your time get a participation trophy then enter the private sector. Just think how much the country would save in pensions alone.
Asymmetric PUSHBACK in progress...
That’s why it’s pretty inconsequential whether SlowJoe or Kamalamdingdong is sitting in the WH desk.
yes, this too
MAGA
Not going to happen. Neither party will support it.
They don’t give a damn about good government. All they care about is their own political longevity and the “remuneration” that goes along with it.
I believe the fear of a Constitutional Convention, since the 1960s, has been the removal of the first two Amendments of the Bill of Rights.
Right! They are both ciphers.
Try this article on for size. It gets more to the point.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/be_lions_not_sheep.html
if not sooner!!!
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earlier or sooner?
You are probably right that we are too far gone now.
Missouri has had term limits for 20 years and I think we have pretty good government. But, that is not Washington with however many million employees there are.
If thee were an Article V convention that somehow managed to ratify limits on the power of the federal government; I don’t believe DC would handle such a thing with a shred dignity. There’s a parody of the kid’s cartoon “Caillou” on Youtube called “Caillou the Grownup”, that’s how I’d expect them to act.
I doubt that The Founding Fathers ever envisioned a situation where we would have worthless career politicians who can regulate their own pay, and are able to enrich themselves through nefarious means to the point that they have four mansions (a-la joe biden). Being a career DC politician is much, much more lucrative than anything else the lazy, weak-minded could imagine. The original Patriots served for expenses only and did so as legitimate service.
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