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Term Limits are a ‘Monkey’s Paw’ wish waiting to happen; it will just shift the power from the elected representatives to unelected staffers, advisors and lobbyists.

The correct solution is to have a forced retirement age for politicians - if you’re old enough to receive a pension, you’re too old to hold elected office.

We're going to get term limits in 1994, when Gingrich's majority makes good on their Contract With America. Susan Collins will lead the charge.

In the last two years 8 Congressmen have died in office. 7 of them were Democrats, and only two were younger than 70, and none younger than 65.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_who_died_in_office_(2000%E2%80%93present)

Eh, I get what you're saying, but term limits aren't a prerequisite for democracies.

The problem was neoliberals ran the party for generations and would ~~blackmail~~ blackball anyone that worked on a primary against a neoliberal incumbent.

Even to the point they were robbing state parties and threatening to cut entire state parties off of their reps didn't toe the line.

That's over, it's been over for a year.

Even if the current DNC chair did a 180 as I'm typing this, he's been dumping all the money stolen via the Victory Fund back on state parties. The DNC couldn't use the old threats if they wanted to.

Without that pressure from the top, progressives will replace neoliberal and republican incumbents.

And if a progressive gets thru the presidential primary and into the Oval, then they get to name the next DNC president.

That's what pisses me off the most these days....

I spent decades trying to convince people the DNC was a problem. And as soon as the voting members fixed it, everyone started to realize how bad it was, but not that it's been fixed.

I don't understand how people keep falling for billionaire propaganda.

12 terms sounds ridiculous, but they're only 2 year terms. That's far too short, and only keeps every Congressional Rep in constant reelection mode. No wonder Congress does such a crappy job, they're always raising money, and/or campaigning.

They should have a 4 year term, with 50% being elected in the Midterms and the Presidential elections.

Two words “term limits”

Agreed. Plato even wrote about it in Laws.

In "Laws," Plato suggests that senators should serve for a term of one year to ensure that they remain accountable and do not become too entrenched in power.

I believe it was Japan, but I was having a casual conversation with someone from SEA area and he told me publicly traded companies had a mandatory retirement age of like 68 for executives. I thought that was interesting.

70?? No one over the age of 63.

We require pilots to retire at the age of 65. If they're not fit to fly a plane, why would they be fit to run a country?

John Roberts was 67 when his geriatric lapse rendered the 2024 election illegitimate and fraudulent.

79% of Americans want age caps.

Pilots are retired at 65 years old.

The unfolding geriatric catastrophe of the White House is enabled by Democratic Party failure to press the issue of age. Geriatrics with a stranglehold on party politics damned us to continued geriatric incompetence.

It follows that the only path to restoring the constitutional order is the immediate removal of all geriatric politicians at every level. Federal, State, Judiciary, Legislative, Executive. 100% gone.

It's not difficult: "respect for elders" shouldn't be a suicide pact.

Yeah, I bet it's like Nancy Pelosi, her net worth is the equivalent of her working as speaker of the house for like 2,000 years or something. Glad that's not a red flag at all? I guarantee if you bought a car for 30k the IRS would be up your butt where you got the money.

Meanwhile, you get lucky if your representative's staffers read the bills before a vote.

maybe milking tax payers was his dream retirement?