The Career Politician Virus

Summary

The United States is no longer the representative democracy our Founders conceived because of a glaring flaw in our constitution; it allows individuals to make a career of public office. Career politicians have an inherent conflict of interest between serving so that they are re-elected and serving their constituents in a way not clouded by ambition. Support single term limits to eliminate this problem by voting against the incumbent.

Key Points:

• Career politicians face a stark conflict between their own ambitions and their responsibility as representatives of the American people.
• Careerists gradually lose their principles in acceding to campaign contributors, heeding opinion polls and following their political party line.
• Careerism affects abuses in campaign funding, the undue influence of special interests, bloated bureaucracy and entitlements, convoluted tax code, failure to handle the immigration issues, and much, much more.
• We have been misled into thinking that members of the opposing political party are the adversaries, while it is the career politicians, skillfully looking out for themselves, who are the bad guys.
• A remedy to the destructive career politician is a limit of one term in office.

 

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