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I saw this meme this morning on Facebook:

The problem with the logic is that these people have not held down the fort that long. Every time a statement about a president that once they are gone the mess will be fixed.  Unfortunately history does not say that is a given.

There are some examples where the mess has changed.  Carter replaced by Reagan, and some of the Carter mess was fixed.  There were some positives with Clinton replacing Bush 1. There were some positives with Bush 2 being replaced by Obama. There were positives with Trump replacing both Obama and Biden.  There were major positives with Washington replacing the King of England.

But there are many things that kept happening after the replacement with the exception of Washington’s replacing the King. The difference between Washington and the others is that the relics of the legislature still remained. Party membership does not matter.  Our country’s founders did not envision long continuous careers in being a legislator. The position of legislator was designed to be art time and not year round.  The congress met every other year with the exception of emergencies then the met shortly to deal with the emergency.  There was no congressional salary, just a Per Diem.

The legislators had to live under the laws they created. Now we have legislators who don’t live long enough after they retire to live under their rules.

The president can do many things and is limited by term limits and that is well.  We only had one president that seemed to want to be president forever and the constitution was changed to prevent that. (Well maybe two, Obama seems to have something up his sleeve.) It would seem like the constitution needs to be changed to fix this problem.

It was easier to change the constitution to create term limits for the president as it was five hundred plus legislators against one.  However to create an amendment to limit legislators terms is five hundred plus against five hundred plus.  How many of the career politicians are ready to fire themselves?

Legislators only seem to have the nerve to delegate their responsibilities to the administrative state. They can do that and still keep their cozy Washington DC existence. They have made it easier to sell the constituency that replacing them would hurt them therefore they get reelected.

As with all things government there needs to be a will.  Regardless of who is president next, just like regardless who is governor next, is there a will for people to allow themselves to let others represent them?  Only when will to change exists will there be the possibility of “this sorry mess being will be over permanently.”