Lobbyists run everything because the politicians are all too new. It also completely disincentivizes long-term thinking because the system guarantees they will be out of office by the time the chickens come home to roost.
I think that's kind of bogus. If you can't figure out how to be an effective politician in your first term then you don't deserve to be elected for a second!
The podcast with AOC: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-power-broker-04-r...
Term limits make sense for POTUS. There should be regular changes in Executive management of any organization.
But not the Legislative or Judicial branch. Age limits (minimum and maximum) avoid the "lobbyist capture" issue.
yeah, so we can notkeep every international promise going forward?
Furthermore, having term limits on just one branch of government decreases the power of that branch without decreasing the power of the other branches creating a new balance of power (or imbalance).
Imagine having to vote for someone other than FDR in the 1940 election. Germany had swallowed most of Europe that year. I couldn't imagine being forced to vote for President Wendell Willkie or James Farley to lead us into war because the guy I want can't serve due to term limits.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-inv...
He won that election by a landslide.
Roosevelt won the 1940 election with 55% of the popular vote, 38 of the 48 states, and almost 85% of the electoral vote.