Just yet the one millionth example of left wing hypocrisy. Although, I'm not really a term limit person. I think it is naive to think that would make any difference for a few reasons.
1. The government is filled with Republicans and Democrats, most of whom are bought and paid for by their party. So, having term limits just means we will have different names but the government will still be filled with loyal Republicans and Democrats, bought and paid for by their party. And, in most all cases, a term limit doesn't mean one party would be replaced by another party. In almost all cases a bought and paid for Democrat would be replaced with another Democrat and the same would happen with Republicans as well.
2. We will never have any experienced politicians in the government. While that might sound like a good thing, with national security and intelligence matters, we don't need a constant set of rookies who don't know what they're doing.
3. One might also think that with term limits, these people would have less chance of being bought and paid for by lobbyists but I would argue the exact opposite. I worked in retail management for decades and I can tell you it is very common when hiring for the fourth quarter, some new hires will try to steal as much as they possibly can before getting laid off after Christmas. Same would happen with politicians. If they know they are only going to serve for a certain number of years or terms, many would try stealing as much as they possibly can before their term runs out.
Quick! Someone look outside and see if Jesus is descending through the clouds. I just found myself in total agreement with Independentthinker's post!
Especially point 2.
Term limits are a lazy solution to a complicated problem.
The reason the House has a 98 percent re-election rate and the Senate has an 80 percent re-election rate is because we have concentrated way too much power on the federal level and special interests pour billions and billions of dollars into making sure it stays that way because they have captured that power.
That was a long sentence.
It drives me crazy how the Left is constantly striving to centralize power and then whine when more and more money flows to federal campaigns.
Well...DUH! Money flows toward power. The more you centralize power, the easier you make it to capture that power.
An example I have given at least a thousand times is tax expenditures. When you give our politicians the power to fuck with the tax code, then you are enticing special interests to pay them to tweak the tax code to their advantage.
The playing field is grossly tilted in favor of the powerful. That is why wealth is concentrating more and more at the top.
If you take away the ability of shithead politicians to fuck with the tax code, you take away the incentive to give them money to do so!
THAT is how you fix campaign finance. Decentralize power.
Diminish an incumbent's ability to build a giant war chest, you give a challenger a better chance of succeeding the incumbent.
So, yeah. Term limits are NOT the solution.
Small government is.
