Opinion
The recent election for US Senator in Massachusetts has some lessons. Andrew Jackson was the first President to say “rotation in office” is the mark of democracy. Inheriting a political position or keeping it for life is a mark of aristocracy, which is anti-democratic.
The lesson is that a political position should never become the property of a political party, it belongs to the voters. Nominating candidates by petition is better than by a caucus, and both are superior to a nomination by the bosses in a back room.
If Massachusetts and other states had a term limit for Senator the recent election would not be necessary. There is a minimum age limit but not a retirement age for Congress or the President. What would happen to this country if someone became President because his or her father was President?
Ronald A. Sobieraj
Perth Amboy
