Should there be a maximum number of years you can be active in politics?

[Deleted]

I think the term "career politician" will trigger negative association in pretty much every country these days.
What if politicians couldnt be active in politics for more than a fixed number of years?

For example 8 years max for a Minister, Senator etc. This could be extended if someone would move into a presidential function after that, but otherwise out with them.

This way you would keep things "fresh" and make it hard for them to stay in office forever and keeping seats filled for decades, which is potentially also damaging to a country and it's people.

What do you think?

[Flarelaine]

I think the term "career politician" will trigger negative association in pretty much every country these days.
What if politicians couldnt be active in politics for more than a fixed number of years?

For example 8 years max for a Minister, Senator etc. This could be extended if someone would move into a presidential function after that, but otherwise out with them.

This way you would keep things "fresh" and make it hard for them to stay in office forever and keeping seats filled for decades, which is potentially also damaging to a country and it's people.

What do you think?

On one hand, I see the agruments for term limits.

On the other hand, these limits would be an incentive to make as much money as possible in a limited time and would disincentivise doing anything useful in the last term.

[Wyrt]

Having experienced people is good though. Maybe making them skip a term after every 2 terms or something like that just to get fresh people in.

In the US we have bigger problems, like blatant corruption.

[Deleted]

If I was, say, president for 8 years maximum, I'd start early to groom my husband and/or children into politics so it stays in the family.
It's never fresh.

[Deleted]

The idea has potential but also limitations. I.e. when it comes to international politics your personal network means quite a lot.

How many positions do you categorize as "political"? There are a number of political positions in which I'd definitely prefer an experienced person.

[Karfal]

Actually many people would LOVE term limits both right and left wingers. Trump said he wants term limits as well(but hes jsut evil!!!!).


Im an independent conservative but when I look at pieces of garbage like Reid, Pelosi, Feinstein, McConnell, Boehner, Ryan and theres others. But these people are the poster child for why we need term limits. These are some of the biggest scum bags in the history of america and get to be career politicians.

[ItachiZaku]

Years limit and term limits for everything. I also think there should be a balance in the force, always 50/50 for the big parties, or never more than a small % deviation and up the "majority" vote so that that small deviation can never be the deciding factor.

[Karfal]

Years limit and term limits for everything. I also think there should be a balance in the force, always 50/50 for the big parties, or never more than a small % deviation and up the "majority" vote so that that small deviation can never be the deciding factor.

I actually agree with this. Also remember our founding fathers had a 6 person supreme court. I believe they did that cause it meant you would need 66%(4-2) to pass laws but more so hoping there would be more 3-3 ties to not change laws constantly.

it really is a joke that as a country we have to swing right then left then right then left etc etc

just keep our capitalism and our constitutional values and dont change a thing!

[TwoNineMarine]

You absolutely need term limits across the board.

But before that could happen so much would need to change in regards to how this nation is run it would essentially be like a hard reset. You'd have to re-build this shit from the ground up.

[ItachiZaku]

You'd have to re-build this shit from the ground up.

That's exactly what it feels like needs to be done.

[JohnBrown1917]

While it'd be nice that Wilders would be forced out, but I do not believe in term limits. We had plenty of amazing politicians who spend decades in politics(I.e Willem Drees)

[Deleted]

I think the term "career politician" will trigger negative association in pretty much every country these days.
What if politicians couldnt be active in politics for more than a fixed number of years?

For example 8 years max for a Minister, Senator etc. This could be extended if someone would move into a presidential function after that, but otherwise out with them.

This way you would keep things "fresh" and make it hard for them to stay in office forever and keeping seats filled for decades, which is potentially also damaging to a country and it's people.

What do you think?

Politocians should be selected at random, similar to juries. Serve for 5 maybe 10 yesr term , live in dorms and then retire on a decent pension.

[I Push Buttons]

I feel like it would be even easier to buy a new politician than a veteran one.

A couple real solutions:
- Overturning the Citizens United ruling.
- Implementing a federal revolving door law, only a lifetime ban instead of a cooling off period.

Term limits would solve nothing and make matters even worse. The only way anything at all even gets done is the rapport between both party establishments to at least get business as usual matters settled to keep the government functioning. Such rapport would be lost if every few years an entire new group of people is circulated through.

It would be like the 2010 midterm/2012 election when we got a bunch of idiot newcomer Tea Baggers, sorry Tea Party congressmen... Who caused massive interruptions in the status quo and even a shutdown in 2013... Only it would happen every new batch of idiots who couldn't agree.

[zenkai]

I think the term "career politician" will trigger negative association in pretty much every country these days.
What if politicians couldnt be active in politics for more than a fixed number of years?

For example 8 years max for a Minister, Senator etc. This could be extended if someone would move into a presidential function after that, but otherwise out with them.

This way you would keep things "fresh" and make it hard for them to stay in office forever and keeping seats filled for decades, which is potentially also damaging to a country and it's people.

What do you think?

There should be term limits on congress and on Moderators...

[TwoNineMarine]

That's exactly what it feels like needs to be done.

I agree whole heartedly. There's so much that needs to be changed I don't see any way around it. It'll come to a head eventually. Perhaps not in our lifetime. But eventually.

And that's without even touching the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. That's just in regards to the regular day to day shit.

[enragedgorilla]

8 years for City
8 Years for State
8 Years for Senate ,Congress etc.
8 for President (they got it right)
Supreme Court Judges I would say 12 ish years, Having them be "Dead mans boots" terms is ridiculous.
Career politician should NOT be a thing in My opinion.

[JohnBrown1917]

Politocians should be selected at random, similar to juries. Serve for 5 maybe 10 yesr term , live in dorms and then retire on a decent pension.

You don't pick somebody to lead your country or manage a part of it at random.

[schwarzkopf]

In a given level of politics yes, with shorter terms for higher levels.

Local (County etc) : Life time
State : 24 years
Federal (Congress, Executive, Judiciary) : 12 years

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You don't pick somebody to lead your country or manage a part of it at random.

Apparently you do ... how else do you explain Trump

[Wyrt]

You don't pick somebody to lead your country or manage a part of it at random.

You don't want to witness the fun of random people attempting to write laws? Just think of all the fun loopholes that would exist.

[I Push Buttons]

Politocians should be selected at random, similar to juries. Serve for 5 maybe 10 yesr term , live in dorms and then retire on a decent pension.

I have always enjoyed contemplating a government like that.

Give some standardized intelligence/critical thinking test to the entire population. People that score high go in a pool. Then people from that pool are randomly selected to legislate for a period.

Geniocratic Demarchy