Now that we are entering the age of gerontocracy, it is time again to question some of its shortcomings.
Western democracy was not meant to be dominated by lifelong career politicians! They have formed a class or a caste in our society. Power corrupts!
Voters also deserve a lot of blame for this perversion when they vote for the same (often incompetent) politician again and again.
Any citizen was supposed to become a temporary politician and resume life and a career again outside government or legislature.
Term limits for all elected representatives or members of government would be one sensible reform!
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