This country was never meant to have PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS.
Our system was designed to have a CITIZEN identify a problem/problems and run for federal office to address those problems, specifically if they could not be handled at the local or state level.
I believe our problem with the entitlement mentality, and the idea of lifetime tenure actually started with the advent of PERMANENT POLITICAL PARTIES.
It is my opinion that if we get rid of political parties and go back to just being AMERICANS; electing those citizens that are willing to address SPECIFIC problems our system would be a lot better off.
Solve the problem; go back home to your business, your farm, your medical practice, whatever else you do in society that is actually beneficial to your neighbors.
Think about a system where there are no Republicans, no Democrats, no Socialists, no Greens, no all the other alphabet soup, special interest groups, just CITIZENS interested in GETTING THINGS DONE.
You will always have political parties, its human nature.
They existed in the times of the Founding Fathers, they called them “Factions”. Look how quickly the “Federalists” formed around Washington/Hamilton/Adams & “AntiFederalist (or Democrat-Republican)” formed around Jefferson/Henry/Madison/Gallatin/Monroe. All of them with the exception of Washington encouraged party formation even though they might not have publicly said so. They went from “Factions” to organized parties very quickly!