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[–] -1 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Term limits give lobbyists more power and increase the effectiveness of money in politics.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Term limits will also make the last term of a lawmaker unanswerable in any way to voters so they can sell out. For executive positions they make sense as executives can rig the game and create patronage networks that keep them in office indefinitely. For legislatures it's a horrible idea that will make things worse.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (6 children)

    Other way around, preventing people from forming decades long relationships with lobbyists reduces their effectiveness.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Does it? Seems to me that it'd speed up the representative to commercial position pipeline.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The commercial position pipeline is the aftermath of the problem. When an industry like Big Tobacco can call up someone their long time government whore McConnell, they know he will put out every time. If they have to contend with someone new every few years, you might get a few people who have actual principles, and tell them to pound sand.

    If we get enough of principled people, we can end lobbying for good.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    you might get a few people who have actual principles

    Like Bernie?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    He's doing pretty well cultivating a new generation of Democrats not beholdened to Corporations and AIPAC. Mamdani, platner, AOC, etc are crushing polls.

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