Term limits are meaningless. The root of the problem is private money in politics. We have reached a point where the only way you could convict a U.S. Senator or Representative of bribery was if you had a video of someone passing them a bag labeled with dollar signs while saying, “I am bribing you,” while the congressperson in question would have to acknowledge this by clearly replying, “I am being bribed.” Even then, you’d be unlikely to get a conviction out of this.
Why is it that Schumer and Pelosi can’t seem to get anything useful done in Congress? Are they just too weak and/or stupid?
Hardly. Rather, they’re accomplishing exactly what their wealthy donors – or by antiquated standards, bribers – want them to accomplish, which is to say, nothing of value to 99.99% of the American people.
Granted, billionaires are as varied a subspecies as any group of humans, so they span the spectrum from ridiculously evil to fairly benign. But the very fact of being a billionaire represents significant pathology, and remaining a billionaire for any amount of time suggests a fundamental devotion to the status quo. The wealthy donors controlling Senator Schumer’s behavior may or may not be evil, but they clearly not on our side.
