Don’t laugh for what I am going to say next but it is their respective jobs to do that very thing!
1. The press - They have the resources to actually dig in!
2. The voter - Said “vote sucker ... err politician” is not your mommy, your daddy, your lover\boyfriend\girlfriend the messiah or anything close! Unfortunately voters tend to forget that! If the politician has been in office longer then a decade its time to send them home! I also think too many people vote! I am always opposed to any voter registration etc. effort. If you don’t care enough to make the effort to go register you likely don’t care enough to vote intelligently!
I love the idea of term limits!
Too bad the notion of only allowing property owners/taxpayers to vote was done away with!
The following is attributed to eighteenth-century Scottish historian Alexander Tytler: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.”
Tyler’s words of wisdom are apparent here, are they not?