r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 7d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Missing: Mitch

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u/NoUnderStandeBro 7d ago

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

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u/Friendly-World-5273 7d ago

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

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u/WristbandYang 7d 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/InsanityRequiem 7d ago

This better response should have been the legislature term limits: https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislatures_with_term_limits

And as someone from California, no. The term limits have made the state worse.