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We already have age limits at the lower end. Why are people so against age limits at the upper end?

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Frankly, I oppose term limits as well, if people want to keep electing a politician they like, they should be able to, and it’s really anti-democracy to insist they have to pick someone new after an arbitrary amount of time.

The issues with bad politicians are not coming from them being allowed to keep running, it’s that the systems around elections are so broken that bad politicians can keep winning.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This is exactly it. We need to move past first-past-the-post voting and do something like ranked-choice.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I’d say we need to go one further than ranked choice to multi member districts with ranked choice voting, that way even those groups who aren’t a majority still get represented but larger groups get a roughly proportional amount of representation.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    So by that logic we should repeal the 22nd Amendment?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yah I think we should, it was literally just put in place because some people realized that a genuinely popular president could make serious positive changes that undermined extant power structures.

    If a totalitarian president were to take control of the government enough to continuously win elections without popular support, they could certainly ignore a term limit, so all it really does is prevent the public from re-electing presidents they legitimately like.

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