Posted on Feb 21, 2016
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How can it be fixed?
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Election 2016
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What really needs to happen is term limits for congress. The system was not designed for career politicians. The founding fathers all had jobs and other concerns outside of their political obligations. That is what we need again.
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SSgt Israel Perez - true but I would take that better than the new system coming out in 2018.
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Supreme Court Yes. Congress? NO! You can't save the stupid from stupidity. Putting term limit to Congress will have actually the opposite effect that you think you wanted to happen to the Congress. The Congressman and Representative will only need to follow his voters' will until the last term, and all you can eat buffet in a massive scale through out the Congress. If you don't like a President pull all of his personal agenda on their second term .... you won't want that to happen to the Congress.
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Yes! Party is the root of the problems we face today. Read President George Washington's faction warning in his farewell speech.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
Avalon Project - Washington's Farewell Address 1796
The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline...
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SPC Duncan Koebrich
"All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests. "
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"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."
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Political parties are neither mandated nor precluded by the Constitution. They are naturally occurring (like a cancer). They have arisen spontaneously throughout America's history and lapsed when no longer relevant only to be replaced by others. There have always been more than two, but only two with sufficient numbers to warrant recognition. Currently, both major parties are ebbing. Both have abandoned any semblance of principles and merely pander to special interests. The GOP panders to the religious right and a select group that is too clueless to realize that their party checked out a few decades ago. The Democrats pander to a rainbow coalition of fringe groups, many inimically hostile to each other. This leaves a simple majority of Americans sitting on the sidelines wondering what the hell happened to their country while the freaks cavort in a national carnival side show. How can it be fixed. Leadership. Someone has to step up to the plate and inspire that majority to get off their duffs and take their country and their Constitution back. That person will need a lot of courage and support because the political establishment will recognize the threat and do everything in their power to destroy it. Indeed, it might be the one and only thing on which they may agree to collaborate.
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CPT Jack Durish
SGT John Mark Watson - I'm 73. I hardly have the energy remaining to take my Geritol. Anyone who expects to turn around this nation had better be young, charismatic, and wise well-beyond their years. They also should not have a skeleton in their closet such as my exwife. Anyone who ever met her would know that my judgment is suspect
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