The move would extend her 36-year House career and continue to freeze her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.

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47 points

Always nice when all my reps are backwards boomer jackasses that don’t make any attempt to represent me or my generation. I wish all congresspersons be forced to retire and prevented from reelection when they reach a certain age.

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Hell, Gen X barely have any representatives. Boomers still run the place.

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Meh, we don’t bother to run. We got kneecapped as far as us being leaders is concerned, being bookended by two much larger generations.

I’m only even considering running for city council in 26 because several of my neighbors have suggested I do so independently of each other.

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Always nice when all my reps are backwards boomer jackasses

Nancy Peloso is older than a Boomer. She’s from the generation before that, the Silent Generation.

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Silent indeed. If fucking only.

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10 points

Imagine all the people,

Living for today.

Imagine your representatives,

Voting for term limits to cut off their own money faucets.

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Term limits just give corporations more power because you’re limiting experience. Corporate funded Special Interest Groups will be writing all the laws if you impose term limits.

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I’d argue the opposite. It’s a long known business rule that it costs way more to get new clients than it is to continue doing business with. The longer someone stays in office, the more likely it is they have a past relationship with someone trying to influence them. Oh and by the way, special interest groups already write laws.

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That’s assuming both that parties don’t exist and that all newly elected politicians are newbies and there’s no rotation between different offices. In reality parties would keep institutional knowledge and people would bring personal experience from other offices around.

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