In my opinion the single thing that the present members of Congress could do if they genuinely wish to effect change is resign. In the 116th Congress 120 House members and 41 Senate members are over the age of 65. And those are preponderantly members of the Silent Generation, born prior to 1946. As I’ve pointed out before of the present Congressional Democratic leadership only one is a Baby Boomer. The rest are all members of the Silent Generation.
Most of those seats are “safe”—the resignations would result in little change in the party balance in the Congress. But it would almost necessarily result in a Congress with a different racial, ethnic, and gender composition than the present one and not just, obviously, a different age composition and different attitudes.
I support a constitutional amendment where every 8 years the voters get an up or down vote to render every current office holder ineligible from running for any elected position anywhere in this country.
Would be a joy to watch the whole political class work together to save their careers.
While the seats are safely Democratic, the new Democrats would all be hard left Maoists, and most (all?) of them would be black and brown. Just think of 161 new AOC’s setting policy. A Congress full of clones of your demented dwarf Mayor.