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Re:Who gets to own the West? by comicjk on Saturday June 22, 2019 @11:21AM (#20250069)
Cycling the legislators doesn't help at all - it's easy to make a farm team of lackies, already "bought" before they're even elected. They can even be picked according to ideology, so you don't have to pay them a dime.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/re-engineering-politician...

I don't know the solution to this problem, but it's not legislative turnover!

Re:Who gets to own the West? by maxxxxx on Saturday June 22, 2019 @11:49AM (#20250205)
Agreed. There is this call for term limits but think it would have the opposite effect of what people want. If politics is not a long term career then politicians need to be either independently wealthy or keep a foot in the industry they worked in. That way it's pretty much guaranteed that they will be beholden to that industry and aren't independent.