Reply #61: Look At The California State Legislature [View All]

The CA legislature perpetually consists of green amateurs who cannot draft legislation capable of withstanding judicial review, and who are played like a violin by an advisor/lobbyist cadre with years of legislative experience.

This is a complex country with 300 million inhabitants. That it should be governed by a group of people with not much experience in a perpetual on-the-job training cycle simply strikes me as plumb stupid.

You have a difficult legal problem, and prefer a lawyer who has been at it for 2 years over 10?

If a majority of voters favor term limits, the power is right there in their fingertips to make it so without passing a single amendment or piece of legislation. My notion of representative democracy is that people vote for the candidate of their choice.

Term limits became a part of the American vocabulary as an effort by the reactionary fringe to derail the progressive policies of FDR.

It boils down to saying "if someone is good at their job" as measured in the only way a Democracy can measure that, "then fire that person". It makes positively no sense to me.