• bitsplease@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If someone is deemed effective by their customers (us), they’ll be re-elected. I don’t see term limits proposed for any other job…

    Except that in practice, that’s not how it works, thanks to our BS two party system, if you don’t want a republican to win a seat, you pretty much have to vote for the incumbent, or else the vote will be split by people who barely play attention to politics.

    If we had reached choice voting or similar it wouldn’t be an issue, but we don’t - so it is.

    As for why it would help, it’d fix the issue of DC being a retirement home for one thing. It’d also at least force lobbyists to rebuy politicians all the time

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      1 year ago

      Yes, I’m all for ranked-choice voting. And I understand the problems with our system, I just don’t see how term limits will fix…anything at all.

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        1 year ago

        Again. It would fix senior citizens in politics. Very very few get elected for the first time at 70+, they start younger and then just never retire. If you only have an 8 year window, you can only retire at 8 years older than you started