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The only problem now is that progressives found a way to more easily do thing without congress by instituting the executive bureaucracy and activist judges who legislate from the bench. Those are other reasons for the states to call for a convention.
Yeah, and the presidency also had a term limit every four years until 22nd amendment. You know what he meant, enacting similar amendment for congress or any other lifetime appointment.
Also, its preposterous to compare the founding fathers to today’s political elite. For one thing, the elites of our founding actually had careers outside government before seeking office. Today, we have someone running for president who hasn’t had a non-government elected job since 1970. And there are many more like him, career politicians who have spent more than a generation in elected office.
Next, the revolution wasn’t started by rich wanting to avoid taxes. If you read the declaration, and not just the first two of four parts of it, but also the third part that list the grievances. It’s a long list, not just rightful complaints of taxes. Besides, the same “elites” that took office in the new government have enacted taxes.
Lastly, as for experience, read the document. The only experience required for congress or pres/vp, is age (and citizenship). And the reason why is because unlike technical crafts like mechanics, elected office only requires the experience of living long enough in the country bounded by the laws enacted by government. You don’t need technical training on rules of order or how to write a bill. That’s done by congressional aides anyway. It’s the polices turned to bills that come from regular people who have earned a living under the laws passed by congress that is the only experience required to what to pass or not pass. It wouldn’t be any different than you or me deciding what is best for the country. We don’t need technical training for that, only experience in living within the country bound by the laws passed. So you comparison is absurd. Right now we have elected people who pass laws who feel they don’t have to abide by them, like getting hair done, buying jewelry, going to their lake home, going to the gym, etc. They’ve been there so long they either forgot what it was not to be an elite or never have had any other job!
Written by someone who has never been elected, worked to get someone elected, started a 527 PAC, worked within the system to get meaningful things done I assume. Your utopian way of thinking how this country was founded and how it has always operated taints your objectivity. I’ll give you a great example of why experience matters. The Trump administration has lost 80 percent of their policy battles in court, they have won 11 percent and spend untold time and money facing off in court. They have lost 63 cases in the last 24 months, why? Primarily because they are neophytes who have no clue on how policy is formed or implemented. The administration aides are not the ones calling the shots. The guy on the top is making them implement and fight these out. They don’t lose on the grounds of illegality usually, they lose on procedural grounds or the inability to understand how the game is played and operated. Experience matters. Some local yahoo who is a farmer has zero understanding how complex the machinery of government and law are intertwined. Just like watching a YouTube video on a surgery does not make me an expert reading your kids 8th grade history book and watching “How a Bill becomes a law” does not make you an expert on how the machine of America works. In theory your idea works beautifully, but so does communism in theory.....