People do get the government they deserve.

However, I’m not willing to just forgo the greatest experiment in liberty in mankind’s history, just because the beneficiaries of that system are on the whole not typically involved enough to really understand what they are doing with their vote; to see beyond the limits of their immediate comfort level.

The education system is already strongly geared to the left, and has been in the process of dumbing-down America for the past fifty years. They are succeeding beautifully.

The unfortunate part of it is that the politicians fully understand what they are doing. Obama is not taking us down the road to socialism accidentally, and he couches his actions in shallow, great-sounding soundbites that biased media will extol without hesitation or analysis.

Do Americans deserve to get fleeced? You can make a great argument that they do; that they have brought it on themselves. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take steps (when you can) to limit the damage that can be done.

Financial establishments and the police routinely tell people about things they can do to reduce the possibility of being taken by scam artists. They don’t merely sit back, watch it happen, and say, “Too bad. You were dumb enough to fall for it.”

And our whole system was set up with a number of checks and balances to keep too much power from accumulating in one area. When power is dispersed, a mistake only adversely effects the immediate proximity of the mistake maker. When power is centralized, it effects everyone adversely.

Term limits are just another “check” to reduce the probability of power becoming too centralized.

Diane Feinstein, for example, has been a Senator forever. It was just revealed that she introduced legislation that would route 25 Billion dollars to a branch of the government that has already promised to give major financial support to a company her husband owns. He’ll be the guy selling foreclosed housing and taking as much as a thirty percent commission for doing it.

I’m sure the Feinsteins had no idea this was going to happen when they bought controlling stock in the company and watched it rise 40%in the past few of months. Given her tenure in the Senate, and her power within the Democratic Congress, I will be AMAZED if the is any kind of Congressional investigation into the propriety of it all.

And that kind of play is just the kind that I’m sure happens almost everyday in the hallowed halls of Congress under what would be easily understood as “insider trading” if it happened on Wall Street. I just think that without term limits…. there are WAY too many “insiders.”

Congressional term limits would not, of course, be a panacea. But they would give us a bit more of a fighting chance.