re: #746 SixDegrees

If you think that will ever happen, you are deluding yourself. It is human nature to seek to expand the scope and scale of your power, and politicians do this for a living. They will only find less obtuse ways to continue doing so if faced with such a groundswell, after pitching a couple of meaningless bones to the crowds. In short, they’ll just start telling a different set of lies.

But if you think politicians are going to vote themselves less power, you’ll be waiting a very, very long time to see results.

The best solution - and really, the only solution - is to post lists of incumbents on the Internet and publicize them, while educating people to instinctively vote against anyone who’s served more than a couple of terms. Despite the “Liberal Revolution” that’s supposed to have taken place during the last couple elections, the turnover rate in congress is still in the single-digit range.

Gee, I wonder who this sounds like. Agree 100 percent.