(02-02-2024, 01:15 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(02-02-2024, 09:45 AM)mikesez Wrote: In principle term limits are a good idea.  New blood is a good thing.  It's good when young, gifted men and women can chart a possible career path in public service without saying "gosh I hope that guy dies soon so it can be my turn".

But that's not why people want term limits.  People want term limits to reduce corruption.  They absolutely will not do that.  If anything term limits will increase corruption.

If you really want to reduce corruption, and reward the people who expose corruption, and punish the people who distract us from corruption with shiny-object divisive social issues, you need ranked-choice voting.

Do you have any argument to support your theory?

Look at places with term limits.  Tallahassee.  Mexico.  They aren't benefitting from it.

Think about it.  Assume the system is corrupt.  Where do new politicians come from in a corrupt system? Obviously, corrupt people behind the scenes recruit them and fund their campaigns. The people typically don't figure it out until they're in office and start doing what their backers paid them to do.  But if you let them get established with their own name recognition, that's when they can start to make their own choices about who to do deals with and why.

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