{"id":52986,"date":"2022-09-19T20:41:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52986"},"modified":"2022-09-19T20:41:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T20:41:46","slug":"if-i-were-king-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52986","title":{"rendered":"If I were King of the World &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/OIP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52987\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/OIP-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/OIP-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/OIP.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, I need to stipulate that I never have aspired to be King of the World, but if somehow were it to happen, there are a few things I would change about the current political climate.<\/p>\n<p>For starters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would limit the U.S. president to a single six-year term, kind of like what they do in Mexico. Presidents there run for a single term and then they&#8217;re gone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is the advantage here? The president doesn&#8217;t campaign for re-election, for starters, and he or she then gets to concentrate solely on legislative agendas.<\/p>\n<p>Too often presidents take office at the start of their first term and begin making speeches aimed appealing to voting blocs that would favor them in a run for their second term. It&#8217;s a fairly bipartisan affliction, so my friends on the left can accuse me all they want of offering a &#8220;both sides do it&#8221; escape clause. Too bad. I just happen to believe it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>I offer this change while reminding readers of this blog that I oppose term limits already. I subscribe to the notion that elections serve as &#8220;term limits&#8221; if voters believe the officeholder doesn&#8217;t deserve to be re-elected.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Furthermore, I would like to see terms of House members extended from two years to three or maybe four years. That, too, removes the need for House members to begin their re-election quest immediately upon taking office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A congressman once told me that he had to dedicate a certain number of hours every week to campaign fundraising, which took time away from research and legislating. It was an unwritten rule, he said, but one that a congressman or woman dare not ignore if he or she wanted to serve beyond that single term.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t trifle with the length of U.S. Senate terms. No need to extend them beyond the six years to which we elect them. Besides, doing so might fill a senator with a notion that since he or she is elected to serve longer than the president that he or she is more <em>important<\/em> than the commander in chief. We&#8217;ve got too many senatorial grandstanders already.<\/p>\n<p>None of this is likely to happen. I am just venting over what I see is serious damage to the political fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, none of this answers the need to stop elected certifiable dumbasses to high public office. We&#8217;ll have to deal seriously with that matter later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I need to stipulate that I never have aspired to be King of the World, but if somehow were it to happen, there are a few things I would change about the current political climate. For starters: I would limit the U.S. president to a single six-year term, kind of like what they do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If I were King of the World &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[3700,4552,5042],"class_list":["post-52986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-presidency","tag-term-limits","tag-us-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52988,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52986\/revisions\/52988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}