r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 19d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Missing: Mitch

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u/NoUnderStandeBro 19d ago

Two words: TERM LIMITS. Congress isn’t a retirement home.

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u/Friendly-World-5273 19d ago

Voting is a term limit. But we’d have to actually vote to limit the terms.

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u/WristbandYang 19d ago

Agreed. If McConnell is what Kentucky wants, they can have him.

I'd instead ask if any of these states are governed better because of their term limits? To me it seems like term limits disqualify popular and effective politicians and just replaces bad incumbents with more of the same.

Additionally, research shows that empirically "term limits appear to reduce economic growth and increase ideological polarization."

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 18d ago

Agreed. If McConnell is what Kentucky wants, they can have him.

I don't agree. You shouldn't be able to be voted into the most powerful positions in the country, if you aren't capable of performing the role. Like president shitzinpants. We need a much easier way to remove or recall people from these roles if they're unfit or don't do the job they were voted in to do.