President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorshuch, is now going through the mindless banter of the Senate interview process in which both sides of the aisle ask foolish questions to the nominee, either trying to show the public what a great choice the nominee is, or to try to trip them into saying something that can become a sound bite that they can use to discredit them.

After the back and forth for a few days, the Senate will likely confirm Gorsuch, with Democrats acquiescing because they fear the next nominee will be someone worse in their eyes, or the Republicans will use the nuclear option to confirm him anyway.

In short, all this crap is just grandstanding to attempt to show the folks back home they are actually trying to represent them, and they already know the outcome, which often was arranged prior to the nomination in back-room dealing.

One of the big talking points, even in the election, was the fact that 49-year-old Gorsuch may hold a seat on the Supreme Court bench for decades to come, making his appointment quite important, since it could help shape the direction of the nation’s policy making.

Right off, that statement concerns me because it was never the job of the Supreme Court, or any other court in the Judiciary, to shape policy for the United States. But Congress has abdicated their responsibility to lead the nation in favor of the ever-increasing influence of activist judges.

And that is a topic for another time.  Today, we are concerned with imposing term limits on Congressional members, forcing them to relinquish their chosen careers and power after a certain number of election cycles.  And there is a lot of support among the grass-root voters for such an amendment to the Constitution.

A recent meme, probably based on absolutely no polling or science of which I am aware, said 75 percent of American voters say they approve of term limits for their elected officials.  Which confuses me somewhat in that if that many of us are against re-electing the incumbents, how do so many get re-elected each cycle?  Sort of confirms my belief that 64.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

But it points out the truth that we already have a mechanism for term limits in place, and it has been in use for quite some time, but not very successfully.  It’s called the ballot box, and all we have to do is use it.

The longest tenure of a Supreme Court Justice is that of William O. Douglas, who sat on the bench for a total of 37 years.  Amazingly, three members of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) have already served for over 40 years each on the Senate floor.

Additionally, in the 2016 election cycle, 97 percent of the incumbents in the House were re-elected to the same office.  And this happened at the same time the polls showed that over 80 percent of the American public did not approve of the job Congress was doing.

And who’s fault if this?  Ours, American public.  We don’t want professional politicians, we think they are doing a lousy job, we believe them to be less than honest, yet we continue to re-elect them, cycle after cycle, to continue to do the lousy, dishonest jobs we are expecting them to do.

As another meme says, we must be a special kind of stupid.  But in reality, we are amazingly lazy and uninformed.  We fail to do the work necessary to look at what is going on in Congress and, when we step into the ballot box, we take our sacred right to vote and waste it on a name we think we recognize, or vote against someone that was mentioned by our favorite pop star.

We don’t have a clue what the candidates stand for, or what they have done in the past, and we are too disinterested to try to find out for ourselves, instead settling for Twitter posts and Facebook memes to make our decisions.

I would suggest, contrary to the get out and vote mantra, if you won’t take the right to vote seriously, just stay at home and let those who really care make the decisions.  And if you want term limits, just throw the bums out.