Why do American’s continue to dig their own graves by allow their elected officials treat them like slaves?

great question, I wish I knew why Americans are so dumb when it comes to this. looks more like the whole thing is some kind of scam and the people just can't buy into it.

Your original question is so tiresomely rhetorical and insulting that it doesn't merit any answer.

"[L]ong tenured individuals generally, if not always, become a little jaded, indifferent, cynical, and arrogant, regarding the duties, responsibilities, and objectives of their job after they've occupied it for a long time."

Boy, is that ever a ridiculously stereotypical statement, and far from the truth if you are talking about people in all sorts of professions instead of just professional politicians. Imagine talking that way about doctors.

1. An true statement, and it requires a constitutional amendment to adopt term limits on Congress, like the 22nd Amendment limited the President's terms. Unfortunately, the members of Congress don't get elected *just* for the sake of proposing amendments that public opinion polls say the general public wants. We do have to hold our own politicians' feet to the fire and demand that they vote on such a proposal or else we will vote them out.

2. Also true.

3. Unverifiable.

4. Every member of Congress IS a "citizen," and there is nothing inherently wrong with being a "career politician."

5. Unverifiable.

6. Unverifiable, and ironically, the many members of Congress who refuse to vote for proposing a constitutional amendment that adopts term limits are often voting that way for the sake of a principle, instead of voting for it just to save their own "career" in Congress. If a member of Congress was voting "yes" on a proposal to amend the Constitution with limiting their own terms and doing so, not because they conscientiously believed it is the right thing to do but only because they were worried that a huge number of their constituents were going to vote against them if they didn't, wouldn't that be an UNprincipled vote?

7. There is always new ideas and fresh thinking coming into Congress once every two years.

8. Unverifiable.

9. Unverifiable.

10. Or it will encourage MORE taxes and GREATER government, for reasons that George Will discussed in his book "Restoration." And it is still unverifiable whether there will be greater voter participation just because of term limits.

11. In your opinion.

12. Completely untrue that 99% of the members of Congress are re-elected. Once every two years there are always far more than just 1% of the members who either retire or who get defeated for re-election. The "natural attrition" rate is much higher than you just pretend that it is. It isn't as low as 50%, of course, but that would be a ridiculously low rate of re-election, unless you are proposing that the term limit for members of the House should be only two terms.

I would think at the state level the public should choose the term limit of a national representative or senator. A better informed public would have no need of limits on paper. Good service should be rewarded. Bad service should mean an immediate vote out or repudiation. But, I do belief our elected should have a sense of honor. To know when it's time to go home.

For some reason our elected now have this dumb idea that their own best interest IS the public good. That needs to be fostered out.

4 years for presidents and 2 years for the rest isn't a long time

Conservative propaganda convinces people that what is good for the greedy business's is good for the oppressed working man.