Constitutional convention/term limits, etc: ain’t gonna happen; unintended consequences including what 50 said – paralysis of government. Fact is that the government has too many tentacles into our lives, and has every possible type of interest group played off against another so that you can’t get agreement to cut anything. It is a spider web of laws and regulations that we are enmeshed in and can’t get out of – the more we struggle the more entangled we get. We are caught in the inevitable downward trajectory of all societies, as Mencken’s Law takes suffocating hold: “It doesn’t take a politician long to realize that every time he takes a dollar from one man and gives 50 cents to two men, he gains two votes for every one that he lost.”

You know the old saw about a frog in a pot of water that’s gradually heated, and the frog never notices the temperature rise because its gradual and gets boiled to death? Well, it turns out that frogs actually do jump out after the water gets to a certain temperature. People, however, are not so smart.