Election Reform

someone has really learned the job, they're term limited out. Just think about it.

Someone has suggested two terms for Senators, Six for Representatives. Each serving a total of twelve years. If this were to come about, starting twelve years into the term limits, For senators, it would mean that every single election (if I'm doing the math right) half of the seats would be open seats. For Representatives, one sixth (sixteen percent) of all seats would be open seats. That of course assumes that each senator and representative actually is elected every time until they are term limited out.

To me this is not a good solution. There is a huge problem with lobbyists, and that's in no small part that much of the legislation they're trying to pass involves complex issues that most legislators don't know a whole lot about. Some sorts of restrictions on lobbyists are needed, but other than to prevent anyone who has worked in an industry from ever being a lobbyist for that industry, I don't know what can be done.

The largest problem is that the very vast majority of legislators are lawyers. Plumbers and schoolteachers and engineers and every other occupation out there should be represented. Figure out a way to do that and things might be better.

Oh. And women should be serving in legislatures in proportion to their numbers in the society at large. Think about what that would mean.