Revolution 2.0

Citizen Politicians, not Career Politicians = Term Limits (EP.141)

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Introduction Career politicians serve themselves. Citizen politicians serve the citizens. The country’s successful founding depended on, and anticipated the continuation of, citizen politicians to serve the country. Today we have career politicians who serve themselves. We must return to the days of citizen politicians by voting in term limits.  Career politicians will fight us tooth and nail. That’s the subject of today’s 10-minute podcast. Continuing Passed by Congress in 1947, and ratified by the states on February 27, 1951, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution (Twenty-Second Amendment) limits an elected president to two terms in office, a total of eight years. (There is an exception, but it is minor and does not matter much.) We have term limits with the presidency, the highest level of our government. Many state and local governments have term limits for some offices as well. It is past time for the US to have term limits for Congress. Geroge Wa