[Just another Joe]

Bump for the comment... and

Over time the government claimed the sole authority to interpret the Constitution, then proceeded to broaden its own powers ad infinitum and to strip the states of their original powers - while claiming that its self-aggrandizement was the fulfillment of the "living" Constitution. So the Constitution has become an instrument of the very power it was intended to limit!

I can see where this will take the USA. You don't want to go there if at all possible.

IMO, it still started going downhill with "Career Politicians".
Get the normal everyday people back into politics, running for office, (I know, a remote possibility), and you take away much of the BS.

[Middle Man]

I wonder if anyone with honor, integrity, talent and initiative even thinks about going into politics in this day and age. After considering a career spent mixing with bottom feeders like Maxine Waters and Teddy Kennedy, such a person would probably say, "Forget this!"
Better that we citizens stop the growth of government at the source, the income tax.

[justshutupandtakeit]

What country are you talking about? Politicians in this country were almost always "career politicians."

[boris]

"IMO, it still started going downhill with 'Career Politicians'."

It all started going wrong with the Fourteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Amendments to the Constitution. Roosevelt's "New Deal" basically was the end.

--Boris