Please continue your debate with yourself. Both of you are obviously conflicted.
On the one hand you question agendas of influential staffers who have more power than the elected officials. Then you argue that newly elected and inexperienced elected officials need these staffers’ expertise.
You have no problem with paying staffers unlimited salaries for lifetime careers on the taxpayers’ dime; whose political views are unknown and whose credentials are unimportant.
You insult the voting public, forced to choose from an entrenched power elite - who, as you state; *have been gaming the system for decades*.
The only way to get right is to get rid of the staffers and the politicians by TERM LIMITS.
How is term limits going to get rid of staffers?