If I’m employed as a bus driver, and I decide overnight that I’m just going to start working dispatch without approval, I lose my job.
We need a mechanism to remove representatives who have chosen to no longer represent what they did when elected. Or, we need to stop using representatives.
In theory, the election cycle acts as that mechanism and they’d fail to get reelected. However, a combination of the 2-party-system and general voters’ apathy when it comes to politics means that in the vast majority of cases an incumbent just needs to slap a D or R next to their name and they’re in office for as long as they want.
If I’m employed as a bus driver, and I decide overnight that I’m just going to start working dispatch without approval, I lose my job.
We need a mechanism to remove representatives who have chosen to no longer represent what they did when elected. Or, we need to stop using representatives.
Recall elections are a thing, are they not?
In theory, the election cycle acts as that mechanism and they’d fail to get reelected. However, a combination of the 2-party-system and general voters’ apathy when it comes to politics means that in the vast majority of cases an incumbent just needs to slap a D or R next to their name and they’re in office for as long as they want.