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To play the devil's advocate with you and GP, term limits can often mean that congresspeople will be perpetual novices. Governing can be complex especially when
by wpasc 7y ago
To play the devil's advocate with you and GP, term limits can often mean that congresspeople will be perpetual novices. Governing can be complex especially when seated on various committees like foreign affairs, CBO, etc. Older congresspeople who have accumulated years of experience have seen things go right, go wrong, and have learned a great deal about governing.
I think in tech we can attest to how disruption does not always mean good and how move fast and break things can go wrong.
To be clear, I don't disagree entirely with the idea of term limits or age limits, I just think the counter arguments deserve a fair amount of weight.
- protanopia 7y agoPerhaps government should be made less complex.
- jhayward 7y agoWhile you're accomplishing that I would like water to be less wet, and the value of Pi to be set to three as well, please. All proposals that I've ever seen to "simplify" government amount to abdicating large functions, usually justified by some ideology around "rugged individualism" or anarchism which are completely fatuous.
- mullingitover 7y agoI'm a big fan of the idea of abolishing states, having a US national government and then county/city level governments. The states were created when it was infeasible to manage large amounts of territory due to the difficulty of communicating across long distances. That's no longer the case. We could cede some state powers to local governments and some to the federal level. The idea would get pushback from those in smaller states who enjoy a disproportionate voice in national politics, but I feel that those voices don't deserve to be amplified over anyone else's just because they have a bunch of empty land backing them.
- procombo 7y agoI can't tell if you're trolling or not. I really hope you are because there is little to no truth in what you wrote here. Independant states are integral. Pick up any 6th grade textbook on the subject for the awesome "deets".
- procombo 7y agoThe original 13 colonies literally predated the fed. States weren't created for the convenience of the fed, it was the other way around.
- mullingitover 7y agoThe People predated the States. People weren't created for the convenience of the States, it was the other way around. Now the States are just another layer of bureaucracy that people have to deal with, and I argue that giving people a larger voice in both local and national politics makes more sense than having these artificial State constructs get in the way.
- cvwright 7y agoA limit of two terms in the US senate would still allow for a total career of 12 years — 4 years more than any president. A 3-term cap would give 18 years, two more than any two presidents combined. That’s a long way from being a newbie.
- ApolloFortyNine 7y agoAnd the senate is even already voted in on a rolling schedule, so even in the worse case, 66% of the senate would have more than 2 years experience, and half of those would have 4 years. Term limits to me seem to be one of those obvious solutions that are almost impossible to fix after the creation of a government. How do you convince politicians to vote against their own self interest? Especially with term limits, where you would need 2/3s of them to do so.
- asveikau 7y ago> A 3-term cap would give 18 years, two more than any two presidents combined Not if one of them is FDR.