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I think the 3 ideas I mentioned above are helpful nudges to reduce incumbency. There are other ways, like Australia's mandatory voting, or the DSA's Abolish the Senate proposal that we're less ready for.

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My final argument about term limits actually is news today. Politicians will throw out democracy to stay in power by disenfranchising people. You want to stay in power? Just make sure the other side can't vote. Use your authority to block them getting ballots. Put a poll tax on them. Arrest them then take their vote because you arrested them. Or, just don't deliver their mail because your side decided they aren't properly registered. We need checks on these people that force them out. I will take occasionally having a good one not serve quite long enough for the other 99% to be tossed out before they can take the whole system down. Historically only death pushes the worst ones out. That will always be true unless we put term limits in place to force them out another way.

>We need checks on these people that force them out.

So you're going to vote for checks on these people but you're not going to vote them out?

I do both and I get involved locally. There isn't one magic solution. Some make more difference than others.

Term limits isn't going to get a better candidate, voting for the better candidate would.

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