People forget that its hard to learn a new job and it takes time and money to train the new guy. People already bitch and moan about the glacial pace of government and policy… imagine if we had a large percentage of congress learning the ropes every couple years.
I think term limits would seriously backfire and result in some serious mistakes happening, or, utter gridlock would occu.
You could do a middle road and do a limited number of terms. I don’t even care if it’s on the higher side, I think that’s what I would prefer. I think that would limit the amount of “serious mistakes/ people not knowing what they are doing.”
Just would be nice to not have people serve from age 36-82 or some crap. At the same time we also have a built in prevention of this called elections. My greater point was largely that I find the whole swamp idea stupid and right up there with its dumbass cousin statement the deep state.
Isn’t that the literal definition of term limits?
3 terms for senate, 8 terms for House?
Basically the maximum would be two, 2-term presidential terms. Think that works, or would you prefer shorter?
Good to see Man’s Best Friend back in the WH. I always think there is something off with people (raised in this country) who don’t like dogs.
Raise the minimum age. No one should go from college, or college dropout, to Congress. Or barista to Congress. Senator or representative should not be your first real job.
The “swamp stuff” isnt just length of service. It’s a general theme of government overreach, subsidies, kick backs and good old fashion corruption.
Term limits are dumb. It doesn’t fix the problem of a stupid, lazy electorate. As long as public schools have a stranglehold on education, rest assured that electorate will trade one swamp creature for another at the end of their term.
Yeah I worded that poorly. I meant something that wasn’t short like 8 years in the house or two senate terms which I often see. 4 senate terms is 24 years which is more than enough.
House maybe the same or less. So limits but not really short ones. But it’s all quibbling.
I wouldn’t hate that nor would I hate having a maximum age. Not sure why we need so many 70 plus year old people holding so many of our most powerful positions. If you’re near the end of life expectancy not sure I want you making policy decisions. It’s no less ageist than a minimum age.
But at least maybe after the last four years we won’t have so many stupid “we need a businessman in office” lines. No we need intelligent moderates. If they happen to have business experience fine.
Why not? Grandparents care about their grandchildren’s futures.
He was a carpenter, like Jesus.
I think the term limits would actually take care of this to an extent. And yeah I’m sure some care about their grandchildren not saying they don’t. But if a minimum age increase makes sense I think a maximum isn’t bad either. Although with life expectancy increasing and perhaps the future with drugs and such a 90 year old might still be mentally sharp.
Mainly commenting on the fact that so many of our power positions are held by really old people.
Yeah, I made a bird house in grade school too.
Side note Jesus may not have been a carpenter. Some theologians dispute this due to translating text and the lack of trees in the Holy land.
What is a moderate? Can you explain what that term means(in U.S. politics)?
Center right/center left candidates. Kansas is a good example. For years we’ve had center left Dems (far left can’t get elected well here) and a mix of far right Republicans and moderate Republicans. The Dems and moderate Republicans kept the far right people from doing too many stupid things. Then we get someone like Sam Brownback riding a Tea Party wave of no such thing as too far right and we have a clusterfuck in the state which was well documented.
Compromise is possible with these type of candidates and rational discussion of how to solve problems is possible.
Well, they had enough to make a cross.
Does a “center right” guy support the monarchy most of the time, while a “center left” is usually anti-royalist?
I don’t know what you mean but didn’t imagine your question was sincere.
Those are the original meanings of left and right. You defined “moderate” by using those terms, so I’m seeking clarification.
