- If you haven’t done so already, march yourself over to your local voter registration office and RE-REGISTER as an –Unaffiliated- or –Independent- voter. That might not sound like a significant thing to do, but here’s why it’s an important first step, and one that can have a major impact on the political scene. If enough voters do that, it will rattle the political cages of the two major parties, forcing them to re-think some of their political agendas and positions, and the way they do business. Keep in mind, the largest voting demographic today are – Independents-. Currently they comprise some 49% of all registered voters….and growing. Taking that action adds to the effect. So, if you want change….this is a way to be there.
- The second thing you can do as an individual voter is to create your own personal voting policy concerning - TERM LIMITS.
Here’s why: For the past forty years or so we’ve allowed an elitist class of career politicians to develop. A class which no longer serves our collective interests. Instead, it focuses on ways and means to maintain itself in office, so it can feed at the trough of “public service” for as long as possible. In the process it has become more and more corrupt and under the influence of major private interests. Interests that contribute massive amounts of money to have them legislate in their favor rather than ours.
And the key factor that allows them to operate this way is long term incumbency in office. Being able to stay in legislative office for 10-20-30- or even 40 consecutive years inevitably leads such office holders to favor their political benefactors over the rest of us, and legislate accordingly. But, if that long term incumbency in office is short circuited by –TERM LIMITS – then the baneful influences of such large campaign contributors is reduced, mainly because the cost/benefit returns with –TERM LIMITS- is no longer attractive. It’s that simple.
Since trying to get a constitutional Amendment enacted by Congress and ratified by the States to impose term limits is a near impossibility(after all that would be against their career interests), here below is way for you to do so, again, all on your own, and in a way no one can prevent. In a word, you are simply making a pledge, a covenant with yourself, to impose your own limits on how many consecutive terms you will allow anyone to serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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