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Term limits. Politics should not be a viable career option.
by throwawayboise 5y ago
Term limits. Politics should not be a viable career option.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoYou would need to apply the limits to everyone involved in politics not just elected representatives. Otherwise the power will simply shift to the backroom boys, well shift further to them.
- lifty 5y agoTerm limits are not sufficient and it becomes difficult to get enough politicians with experience. We need a combination of direct democracy and liquid democracy so that people can vote directly on some big issue and quickly shift to a different representative when needed, for legislation that gets implemented through representation.
- edmundsauto 5y agoThis would likely have an intended consequence: unelected representatives would have their power increase. If elected officials are rotating in and out of Washington faster, they will rely more on the power brokers.
- inter_netuser 5y agoyou could also rotate them inside the government, it's what ive heard japan does, but not sure about the details. Essentially let's say you are responsible for helping run ministry of finance, and then you are rotated out to manage some rural agriculture thing, and so on.
- tayo42 5y agosounds nice but almost every inexperienced politician has been a disaster in practice