All politics is local.
Not long (maybe 20 years?) ago, there was a HUGE movement for term limits. It failed.
People were disgusted with their representatives, and thought the bums should be thrown out.
Oh, but they wanted SOMEONE ELSE'S bum thrown out. Their own local bum was sending money and jobs to their own district.
Americans have found they can vote money for themselves by getting the right scoundrel in office.
Large corporations have found they can get laws to favor them by financing campaigns that overwhelm uncooperative candidates with a green tide.
Billionaire individuals have found they can cooperate with scoundrels and fund media outlets to gain a cooperative weasel, manipulate laws and events and rake in profits, even while the economy tanks, by undermining confidence in the American economy.
The sad thing is -- there's no where else to go. Even as they dribble away, these last vestiges of America are better than what any other country has to offer, unless you want to go borderline anarchic in some fourth-world backwater.
term limits sound so good. Think of who would go.