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Voters can enact term limits every election day. Why don’t they?
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:42 pm
Question as asked. 
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Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:43 pm to weagle99
Laziness.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:43 pm to weagle99
Because my Congressman kicks arse! Everyone else's is the problem.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:44 pm to slackster
and stupidity, don't forget voter stupidity.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:44 pm to weagle99
Shitty candidates is the main problem.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:46 pm to PsychTiger
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and stupidity, don't forget voter stupidity.
Yeah. The overriding belief is the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.
I tend to subscribe to the opposite strategy - re-elect no one.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:46 pm to weagle99
People vote for the familiar name. And yeah, it is lazy.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:48 pm to weagle99
Name recognition and the almost insurmountable incumbent advantage over challengers that comes with it.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:49 pm to weagle99
Because that would require me voting in a Democrat. Have you even contemplated the two party raping of America?
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:49 pm to weagle99
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Voters can enact term limits every election day. Why don’t they? Question as asked.
Apathy plain and simple. The D.C. Swamp thrives on American apathy. Nothing will change in DC until congressional term limits and strict lobby reform are enacted, that's a fact!
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:50 pm to weagle99
Baaaa, baabaa baaaaaa
That's why.
That's why.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:53 pm to weagle99
Because the ruling class generally always controls the Republican and Democrat choices and it’s almost always a choice of the lesser of two evils.
At least with term limits we’d get a new choice for the lesser of two evils. And...
....and K Street lobbyists should have a more difficult time of capturing congress. Which translates into more representation for you and less for the lobbyists.
Why wouldn’t you want that?
At least with term limits we’d get a new choice for the lesser of two evils. And...
....and K Street lobbyists should have a more difficult time of capturing congress. Which translates into more representation for you and less for the lobbyists.
Why wouldn’t you want that?
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:54 pm to weagle99
Incumbents have huge built in advantages.
They get way more media attention and have name recognition.
Since they are in power they also have huge fund raising advantages.
They also help set the rules of the game they are about to play.
Term limits are overall a good thing because people serving in the same office for decades are always corrupt and are being re-elected not because of merit
They get way more media attention and have name recognition.
Since they are in power they also have huge fund raising advantages.
They also help set the rules of the game they are about to play.
Term limits are overall a good thing because people serving in the same office for decades are always corrupt and are being re-elected not because of merit
Posted on 1/4/19 at 1:58 pm to weagle99
Cause stupid.
Term limits won’t solve the problem.
It’s the life long beaurocrats that are the problem.
Term limits won’t solve the problem.
It’s the life long beaurocrats that are the problem.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 2:01 pm to weagle99
Limited options.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 2:03 pm to Rohan Gravy
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Cause stupid. Term limits won’t solve the problem. It’s the life long beaurocrats that are the problem.
Actually it's both. There should be tenure limits on upper level bureaucrats too. These entrenched bureaucrats and their Swamper friends who've been in congress for 20-30-40 years have mutual interest. Their interests are not the interests of the American people.
Term limits would also disincentivize a buncha scummy leeches from seeking public office. Right now all these people running for congress know if they get in there's a great opportunity to cash in on that Swamp money.
This post was edited on 1/4/19 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 1/4/19 at 2:04 pm to Rohan Gravy
25% of the government is shut down now.
Anybody missing it?
Anybody missing it?
Posted on 1/4/19 at 2:04 pm to Centinel
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Because my Congressman kicks arse! Everyone else's is the problem.
This. This is why these idiots stay in power for so long.
Posted on 1/4/19 at 2:06 pm to weagle99
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Why don’t they?
Because money and power determine which lever you pull.
Do you really think that you decide shite in this country?
Posted on 1/4/19 at 2:13 pm to weagle99
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Question as asked.
Voters could also exercise initiative and self-determination when they find themselves unemployed.... So why don't they...
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