Now why would I go there? Mainly because of Joe or rather
how old is Joe.
First of all I am against term limits. It seems to me to be
the lazy way out of getting rid of bad politicians, yet we do have too many
politicians who are older than dirt.
So what to do. I watched President Biden’s speech from last
night this morning. Sorry I tried to stay up and watch it, but every time I
switched over to a news channel to watch it someone else was speaking. For the
life of me I cannot figure out why he came on so late. Were they that scared he
may have a too many gaffe problem? I hope not. They could have saved time and
not had Ms. Clinton speak. The Democrats hurt their chances anytime she shows
up.
Since I am an independent conservative I am not too fond of
hearing Biden tout his record, but what the heck, he deserves to and I mean
that. Which brings us back to the term limits or hopefully lack thereof.
Term limits hurt politicians who turn out to be good public
servants. Woefully they are few and far between. Term limits would limit the damage
performative politicians like Matt Gaetz and MTG by limiting their time in
office, but that is being lazy. A well educated electorate is the answer to the
performative politician unfortunately we don’t have a well educated electorate.
And that is one of problems of the duopoly. They don’t want
a well educated electorate. People who asks serious questions of politicians
expecting them to be good public servants are a hindrance to people who want to
be in power for power’s sake or their own brand or their own milking the system
or whatever they may do.
Yet term limits are not the answer. Again I do not agree
much with Joe Biden’s policies, yet he truly has made a career of being a public
servant who tried to in his opinion to create good public policy. It is better
to have someone make the effort, or according to his words “give it his best” then
make compromises as necessary than to kick someone out who is doing a good job
because they have run the term limit gambit.
The jerks, losers, greedy, etc should never get in office in
the first place, but people will say that person is okay because they vocally support
the correct policies or my side instead of making the effort to find someone
with integrity who will support their side and policies and actually attempt to
write the laws that work for their side or policies. And please note I wrote “vocally”
support. As Joe said last night, I mean that. Basically they give lip service
to something they care absolutely nothing about to obtain power for their
benefit. I do not care to guess how many pro lifers there are who basically
have no idea what it means to be pro life, but damn it helps them to win
elections in certain areas of the country.
So again the lack of a well educated electorate bug a boo
gets in the way.
And that is why I say term limits are the lazy way to deal
with bad politicians. It takes work to educate the electorate including by
having a good public education system. And then teaching people critical
thinking skills seem to be impossible in this country, yet it would strengthen our
democracy more than any campaign promise you will hear over the next two and a
half months.
If people were able to truly comprehend what was crap coming
out of someone’s mouth, then we could move this country forward like never
before. Yet people do not want to spend the time. And again, if they also spent
the time finding people of integrity to run, it would make this a bit easier.
Our country is great for quite a variety of reasons,
including the ability of well intentioned politicians to compromise
occasionally to come up with workable public policy. None of us will get
everything we want because we are a very diverse country, so it is better to
determine what is the most important issues facing this country then work
together to address them. We do not want one side becoming too powerful because
that eventually hurts the country. At times a more liberal approach may be
needed, other times a more conservative approach, but neither should dominate
or we take away what makes us great, not just the diversity but the diversity
of ideas on how to solve problems. In the long run, the best idea should be
made into law and executed to it’s best potential. And then time changes and
new ideas will be needed.
And when those new ideas are needed a well educated
electorate will find the new people to take on those challenges. Sometimes some
of the older politicians will be able to make those changes and sometimes they
will need to be voted out so fresh people can create the changes needed and
this goes for both conservative and liberals.
Joe Biden gave fifty years of his life to politics, you can
argue whether that is true public service or not is okay, but Joe Biden did
serve the public with his life. Sometimes we need people like that to know how
to steer laws into existence, to know how to talk to the other side to get
things done, to realize when to make a push for something or when to stand down
and let another person take charge.
For every reason you do not like Joe Biden or like Joe
Biden, his career proves that we do not need term limits, just people who make
the effort and which also means most importantly the voters.
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