I agree. For this "tribal" reason of picking a party I've been more inclined to have term limits on Congress.
Besides, if the people want to put someone in office, shouldn't they be allowed to? Isn't that Democracy 101?
It also forces clearer the revolving door between the private sector and politics as then the no-longer congressperson gets hired into a company.
Yeah, those people are called "voters". That's how it's supposed to work. We want congresspeople to feel beholden to them.
> It also forces clearer the revolving door between the private sector and politics as then the no-longer congressperson gets hired into a company.
Isn't this just motivation for more cronyism? You're basically arguing that the last term of any congressperson should be spent working for a company instead of the people.
No it's not. It's to the people with money which let's them get to the voters. Because otherwise that money is going to an alternate candidate that plays ball. Have you ever wondered where the blue-collar Democrats of the 1970's went, for example? Businesses and those with money instead financing better campaigns in return for business representation, won. It's why both Democrats and Republicans have generally represented corporate interests since Reagan.
> Isn't this just motivation for more cronyism?
No, it's motivation for making the existing cronyism even more transparent. Or, incentivizing those who did their terms to return to the communities they helped represent and move on with their non-political life.
Term limits already exist for other positions. It is not a strange concept.
> roundabout
My problem is not with "money in politics", it is with career politicians.
> more difficult to implement
Forgive my laughter, setting a term limits is way easier than your abstract idealism of removing money from politics.
> antidemocratic
Everyone can still vote and is still emancipated. The America after the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution is no less a Representative Democracy than before.
I'm all for honest and open discussion but it is clear this is not one of them.
But TV ads are expensive, hence the several million dollars each candidate spends every election cycle.
Oh, and have Senators be appointed by state governments again, like they used to be.
Voters can restore someone to office, but each term must stand alone, avoiding the, "What does every first-term President want? A second term." problem.
The power to make laws is going to go somewhere. If the legislature won't or can't accept it, it'll end up in the bureaucracy (admittedly a huge problem with out non-term limited national Congress, though for different reasons), or in the case I'm familiar with, by executive fiat and outside groups and lobbyists.