It is evident that popular choice of candidates for political office is easily perverted.
Although responsible, competent candidates do run for political office; it is common for narcissistic, power-hungry candidates to take the office from the civic minded.
A major drawback to the American political system is that large sums of money effect who assumes the political office.
Large sums of money encourage apolitical career rather than a brief willingness of a candidate to do their civic duty.
With a limited number of political offices to fill and a large number of the 300 million plus Americans available to perform their civic duty, why is it necessary for any American to serve more than one term in political office?
There are more Americans able to do their civic duty than there are terms of political office to fill.
Most Americans are not narcissistic or power hungry so why allow such people to run for political office since their motivation is not civic duty?
There must be many double-blind ways to choose candidates for political office.
By 'double blind' I mean insuring that only civic minded Americans are placed in political office.
The point is to prevent the self-serving to manipulate who is placed in political office.
The only other real issue is removing incompetent from political office.
Discourage those who seek political office for non-civic minded reasons.
Popular vote becomes important, with provisions to discourage irresponsible voting, when a person incapable of doing their civic duty should be removed from the office.
Generally, that should a rare necessity so, there would be a hiatus between consecutive removals of persons from the same political office and increases in the deciding percentage of the vote needed to allow removal from political office.
The bulk of Americans need not serve in political office but perform their civic duty by keeping a close scrutiny on those in political office.
Those in political office don't get to vote on removal of others in political office.
The officeholders have a duty, their fellow Americans decide on the officeholder's competency.
It is those who scrutinize officeholders who initiate the process of removing from office.
Consider this question.
What is competency to hold a given political office and is training necessary for that competency?
