Term. Limits.
I still don’t understand what people think that will really do for the American people. I’m for several things - getting the money out of politics, have taxpayer-funded campaigns and stop the insider trading.
…but I will never understand the term limits thing? 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…
Based on that logic, it seems you would be just fine with a king or queen in power for as long as the royal blood line flows… you know, as long as their doing a “good job”.
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
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.
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
Political office should not be a career.
I’m not a big fan of Pelosi, but why not?
Check my comment to the other guy. Tldr no term limits benefits lobbiest plus I’d rather have 4 people with different beliefs representing my state over the span of 16 years than 1 person. This would better ensure political minority view points get represented to some degree.
Also curious why not. Being in a career allows for the development of skills and relationships over time, and there’s certainly an art to building relationships and getting deals done that could improve the more someone is in office.
Building relationships and making deals is part of the problem funnily enough. Career politicians are more susceptible to
corruptionlobbying. IMO representatives should be every day Americans not the successor to a political dynasty or someone who spends most of their life in DC under the impression that they are representing the beliefs of people on the other side of the country.No one man should have the power of someone with 50 years in office.
This is why I mentioned getting the money out of politics. That’s the crux of the problem, not having people serve for their lives in government.
I agree with you in theory, but really, is that how it often plays out in reality? It doesn’t seem to me that our most senior politicians are generally the most effective. In fact it seems the opposite, they usually tend to be the most corrupt (as measured by the suspiciously huge net worths they have), and the most entrenched in party lines, to the point that they’re not any more effective than any rank and file politician who just does what the party whip says.
They do tend to be given more authority in committees and such, but I’d argue that doesn’t have much to do with them actually being effective.
Our congress is filled with career politicians, and the whole thing is a circus
Yeah, I feel the same way about this. Why is it okay to have a career in virtually any other form of expertise, but we want a bunch of amateurs running government?
I just don’t get this sentiment, at all. I understand the frustration with government and how flawed it is (because people are flawed), but I don’t understand why the same people who don’t seek “outsiders” and amateurs to, say, drill their teeth or do open heart surgery, will turn around and frown on expertise in government.
Why?
She need more stock trading tips?
It’d be nice to see all of Congress prevented from doing insider trading. I’m sure there would be nearly 100% bipartisan agreement on that - at least among the constituents.
As a liberal and an old man can we just say ….
FFS , just retire you buncha old fucks.
She looks like hell
Time to retire Nancy
She too old. Was then and is now.
She prefers living in DC over living in San Francisco. Who could blame her?
