Count on the citizens of Nebraska to support term limits. They’ve passed them three times now. So’s the third time the charm?

Count on career politicians to hate term limits. They have this notion that they’re entitled to hold power in perpetuity.

In Nebraska, they’ve had a friend in the courts. The first time voters passed term limits there, the petition requirement was arbitrarily redefined — two years after all the signatures had been submitted and approved.

The second time, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the part of the law that capped congressional terms. So Nebraska judges airily decided that Nebraska voters would not have favored limits on state legislators had congressional term limits not been part of the package.

Now, after Nebraska voters passed term limits a third time, the limits have just been upheld by the state Supreme Court. Despite an idiotic lawsuit by career politicians.

Why? Well, maybe the game is getting a little too transparent. Maybe the justices see there are only so many times they can say voters were too dumb to know what they were doing. Maybe they remember that their colleague who voted to strike it down the first two times was the first justice in Nebraska history to be removed from office by the voters.

A bottom-line lesson from the Heartland: Never accept tyranny, in any form. Don’t let them grind you down. Keep fighting. That’s how you win.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.