Thursday, April 23, 2015
Term Limits
The issue of term limits leaves any liberty-loving individual in a bit of a quandary. I used to be one who would say, as a matter of fact, that term limits already exist because the voter can limit a politician's term. Why should their free choice be limited? My view has completely changed as I now see that, if one's ultimate goal is to maximize personal freedom, one must rein in the inevitable results that a permanent political class brings to governing when the voting public permits such a political class to form -- and it usually does.
In a sense, the decisions of the voting population require checks and balances as much as any other branch of government.
Just as we can't allow "Majority rule" to trample on the rights of minorities or individuals, there must be some check on the careless errors that can occur in the election process when whim and the fashions of a time can leave future generations enslaved. We justly wouldn't wish to honor the free choice of putting a Hitler into power. Maintaining a free society requires distrust of anyone consolidating power, even it they've gained such power through the election process.
