General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Jacob Fox]

no term limits suck

I am against term limits. They are undemocratic

 

[Jacob Fox]

You are literally telling the people "You can't vote for this person even though he/she/they are the person you want doing the job"

 

[Jacob Fox]

If Bill Clinton could have had a third term, I think the early 2000s would have been a lot better

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Term limits aren't a terrible idea in theory.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

The problem is that for Reps, 2 years is way too short.

 

[Jacob Fox]

Term limits already exist. They are called elections

 

[Chris]

If there were no term limits the country would have voted Reagan throughout the 90s and there wouldn't have been a Bill Clinton presidency

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Bump it up to 3 or 4, and set the term limits to 4, and boom.

 

[Jacob Fox]

If there were no term limits the country would have voted Reagan throughout the 90s and there wouldn't have been a Bill Clinton presidency

Very unlikely

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Reps would then be able to run for 12/16 years, and Senators for 24.

 

[Chris]

Not having them is more of a utopia theory to me, it sounds nice but with how much politicians manipulate the government you have to artificially have turnover to keep corruption from becoming worse

 

[Jacob Fox]

Reagan would not have ran

 

[Chris]

And also factor in how lazy humans are and how much they naturally hate change. Incumbents would have to be disastrous to get voted out, that's why so many mediocre presidents got two terms to start with

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Yeah Reagan already had early-onset Dementia by 1987.

 

[Jacob Fox]

As a social psychologist, I have to disagree with you