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Nancy Pelosi says she’ll seek House reelection in 2024, dismissing talk of retirement at age 83
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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”.
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