We already have age limits at the lower end. Why are people so against age limits at the upper end?

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    1 year ago

    Frankly, I oppose term limits as well, if people want to keep electing a politician they like, they should be able to, and it’s really anti-democracy to insist they have to pick someone new after an arbitrary amount of time.

    The issues with bad politicians are not coming from them being allowed to keep running, it’s that the systems around elections are so broken that bad politicians can keep winning.

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      1 year ago

      This is exactly it. We need to move past first-past-the-post voting and do something like ranked-choice.

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        1 year ago

        I’d say we need to go one further than ranked choice to multi member districts with ranked choice voting, that way even those groups who aren’t a majority still get represented but larger groups get a roughly proportional amount of representation.

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          1 year ago

          Interesting, this is the first time I heard of multi-member districts but it makes a lot of sense. I’d certainly be in support of them.

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            1 year ago

            I really like them because they would solve a lot of the issues around minority representation.