The founding fathers screwed up by not implementing term limits. The concept of career politicians must have been too foreign I guess.
They knew WELL the concept of career politicians. What they created was a republic. What we have now is closer to a democracy, mob rule. For instance, originally senators were NOT elected but appointed and intend as a "safety" to OPPOSE the mob of congress from running roughshod over the top of the individuals rights.
Their idea of term limits in a time when they counted on an educated vote was the ballot box.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States#Background
The United States Constitution did not originally define who was eligible to vote, allowing each state to determine who was eligible. In the early history of the U.S., most states allowed only white male adult property owners to vote.[2][3][4] Freed slaves could vote in four states.[5] Women were largely prohibited from voting, as were men without property. Women could vote in New Jersey until 1807 (provided they could meet the property requirement) and in some local jurisdictions in other northern states. Non-white Americans could also vote in these jurisdictions, provided they could meet the property requirement. By 1856, white men were allowed to vote in all states regardless of property ownership, although requirements for paying tax remained in five states.[6][7] On the other hand, several states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey stripped the free black males of the right to vote in the same period.
When they ruled against the poll tax and allowed any one to vote regardless of their status of payment of ANY KIND OF TAX OR FEE and also allowed voting by people of zero accomplishment of any substance proven by proof of land ownership, it was the beginning of an irreversible slide down hill to the end. I believe we are pretty much witnessing about the very last bump on the slide before the country will land on it's ... in the mud hole at the bottom, with the states allowing any one in the world to now vote their selves a share of EVERYTHING in this country. Your earnings, your property, your social security, you children, your women, cars, EVERYTHING is up for grabs and theirs subject to their voting whims.
Unless you are will to pick up your rifle, stand in their way and say NO. No more.
I've not seen much to make me optimistic that will happen.
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