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| Topic Started: Jul 8 2018, 11:44 AM (43 Views) | |
| Soopairik | Jul 8 2018, 11:44 AM Post #1 |
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Should politicians have term limits as to how long they should serve? I actually don't think there should be term limits. I don't really see the point. If a politician is popular, he/she should be able to continue to serve for as long as the people want them to. |
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| Siris | Jul 8 2018, 04:31 PM Post #2 |
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I guess I can see where you're coming from, but maybe I'm just not knowledgable on this matter (yeah, probably that). I'd be interested in hearing any counters to this. |
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| Bry89 | Yesterday, 1:12 AM Post #3 |
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That's why we would've had Obama longer. At least he was more of a gentleman than Trump is. |
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| Kyng | Yesterday, 1:15 PM Post #4 |
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Personally, I doubt that Obama would have run for a third term. He would probably have decided it was Hillary's turn. Anyway, I understand the reasoning that popular politicians should be able to continue serving for as long as they like - but, at the same time, you don't want incumbents getting entrenched. An incumbent who's just doing a mediocre job tends to get the votes of people who are at least glad that their country/state/district isn't totally falling apart - and that's probably not a good thing either. Also, simple partisanship can keep a poor-quality incumbent in office for much longer than they should be. For example, Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is corrupt and icky and I wish he was term-limited, but he isn't, and any Republican challenger will have an uphill battle against him because of how blue New Jersey is. However, I also don't want Congress to be full of inexperienced people, so I would make term-limited members re-eligible after a set period out of office. Also, I don't want anyone doing a Putin/Medvedev switcheroo, where presidents and vice-presidents just swap places for one term to avoid term limits, so I'd incorporate that into any term-limit proposal. Here would be my suggestions for various offices in the USA:
I'm not sure how term limits would work in the context of the UK's parliamentary system, though. First of all, the Prime Minister has usually been in Parliament for several terms by the time they get the top job (for example, Jeremy Corbyn might become Prime Minister in 2022 after serving nine consecutive terms in Parliament, having won his first term in 1983). Secondly, we don't have fixed term lengths (one of Corbyn's terms was just two years, from 2015-17, though the others have all been four or five years). Edited by Kyng, Yesterday, 1:15 PM.
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| Ngc1514 | Today, 10:47 AM Post #5 |
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Term limits deny the electorate freedom of choice in whom they wish to vote. The voters have the ability to impose term limits at the ballot box should they wish to do so. |
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