Who else would like politics to be humdrum?

[David Horn]

(02-11-2022, 12:27 PM)Skabungus Wrote: Abolish the Senate.

Merge it into the house.  Let them keep their extended terms thus preserving the so called "long sight" of the senator, but put them on equal voting terms with the members of the house.  A unicameral body would be infinitely more effective.

Make the Supreme Court a rotating assignment drawing from the federal courts.  You want to be a federal judge, then you are going to serve a stint on the Supreme Court as well.  Draw them by lottery and make the term doable.  Under a decade.

Once the Boomers have "aged out" of the political process, I'm thinking politics wont become boring, but will become less an arena for holy warriors and more the home of problem solvers.

If the Senate remains in the future, it will a very different body.  If ...

Your idea of mixed terms is a good one I've never heard before.

The SCOTUS is just bad.  It has been a political branch most of its total existence, while remaining unaccountable to anything but impeachment. That has to change.  One suggestion that I prefer: long but defined terms.  18-year terms with each President getting two picks (one every two years), and a super majority to block them will generate turnover and prevent meddling by a body that must confirm.

As an early Boomer myself, I have to agree.  We have been an internally contentious lot since we came of age.  I can't see anything good we've done in the political arena and plenty of harm.  We need to 'move on'.