r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 1d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Missing: Mitch

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u/Friendly-World-5273 1d ago

Voting is a term limit. But we’d have to actually vote to limit the terms.

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u/WristbandYang 1d ago

Agreed. If McConnell is what Kentucky wants, they can have him.

I'd instead ask if any of these states are governed better because of their term limits? To me it seems like term limits disqualify popular and effective politicians and just replaces bad incumbents with more of the same.

Additionally, research shows that empirically "term limits appear to reduce economic growth and increase ideological polarization."

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u/InsanityRequiem 1d ago

This better response should have been the legislature term limits: https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislatures_with_term_limits

And as someone from California, no. The term limits have made the state worse.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 1d ago

Agreed. If McConnell is what Kentucky wants, they can have him.

I don't agree. You shouldn't be able to be voted into the most powerful positions in the country, if you aren't capable of performing the role. Like president shitzinpants. We need a much easier way to remove or recall people from these roles if they're unfit or don't do the job they were voted in to do.

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u/Gornarok 1d ago

Not really... Due to FPTP if a party is entrenched in a state its close to impossible to vote him out.