Hell if I know. I'm not sure if it can be fixed. But certainly term limits would be a good start; at least then we have a revolving door of crooks, none of whom can stay long enough for the major league graft that most of our current representatives currently enjoy.
Frankly, I think selecting random schmucks off the street for a term of office would be better than the present "stupid party vs. evil party" setup.
I like that Adams quote. Not many women in politics either, anywhere in the world. I've never understood how the entire range of political opinion in a country as diverse as the USA can be squeezed into just two ruling parties.
Adams was a pretty remarkable person - and probably one of the first national American figures who let politics trump principles, both with his support of the Federalist's Alien and Sedition Acts and his frankly pretty underhanded attacks on Jefferson during his unsuccessful bid for reelection, causing a rift in their friendship that took years to heal.
Basically, he was very human.
We were never, originally, even supposed to have political parties. That lasted about ten seconds after the Constitution was ratified. The last time we had a new party that actually worked was when Lincoln and the abolitionists created the Republican party, and that was before our Civil War - or, as my Grandmother put it, "the recent unpleasantness." We could certainly use more choices.
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Hell if I know. I'm not sure if it can be fixed. But certainly term limits would be a good start; at least then we have a revolving door of crooks, none of whom can stay long enough for the major league graft that most of our current representatives currently enjoy.
Frankly, I think selecting random schmucks off the street for a term of office would be better than the present "stupid party vs. evil party" setup.
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Adams was a pretty remarkable person - and probably one of the first national American figures who let politics trump principles, both with his support of the Federalist's Alien and Sedition Acts and his frankly pretty underhanded attacks on Jefferson during his unsuccessful bid for reelection, causing a rift in their friendship that took years to heal.
Basically, he was very human.
We were never, originally, even supposed to have political parties. That lasted about ten seconds after the Constitution was ratified. The last time we had a new party that actually worked was when Lincoln and the abolitionists created the Republican party, and that was before our Civil War - or, as my Grandmother put it, "the recent unpleasantness." We could certainly use more choices.
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