The Perils of Mindless Partisanship

[anon71262119]

Term limits.

@thunderbolt23

Same here. There is something to be said for institutional knowledge and experience. I’d say 18 years - that’s about a third of a person’s adult life.

@Aragorn

I tend to agree. I think 3 Senate terms is enough.

@anon71262119

At term limits and Mitch McConnell, what a weasel. I’d support two terms for the senate. We could maybe give people in the house about the same amount of time.

@Silyak

think a way to get terms limits to pass Congress is to anti-grandfather in current members of Congress. So say that all terms limits don’t start counting until the next election and only start counting when someone wins an election. So a Senator elected in 2016 could still run for re-election twice (in 2022 and 2028), even if that Senator had already been in Congress for 40 years (for instance). This would lessen the impact of the term limits on sitting members of Congress and allow terms limits to be phased in.

@BlueCollarTr8n

Term limits would be a good idea; I agree w/others that have mentioned 12 years.

And a dissenting view from Nick.

@NickViar

And you think term limits would help that? The problem is institutionalized-the power is going to expand almost regardless of who is in office, and the exceedingly rare individual that doesn’t do so should not be forced out of office by some arbitrary term limit.

You mentioned voting for long-term self interests as though you believe that is a good thing, but a representative that knows he only has four/six/whatever years to plunder has no reason to make decisions that do anything but improve his condition over that short time. At least, without term limits, there is some incentive to do things that don’t hurt his constituents too badly over the long-term. Of course, a king can be said to be preferable to a president for the same reason.