Incumbency: Enemy of the State

Incumbency is on the verge of taking down America for good. Greed trumps good every time, and that is a human weakness that can destroy everything the Founding Fathers hoped for us;

Steve Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--March 20, 2026

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It is becoming increasingly clear to me that the root cause of political corruption in America is the incumbency process associated with legislative reelection efforts. The United States Congress has become a criminal enterprise that has made thousands of federal legislators rich beyond most people’s imagination. Paupers get elected to Congress and in a relatively short time become millionaires. How does that happen? What allows this to happen?

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." ~ George Washington

First and foremost, We the People got lazy. We the People, instead of doing our job and limiting how long a legislator could serve, allowed a governing elitist career political class........

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