Why not term limits?

with certain offices we have term limits.

On the federal level, they are probably unconstitutional. Presidential term limits required a constitutional amendment.

Because what morons today fail to understand, is that your ORIGINAL constitutional RIGHT to vote for whoever you want................was neutered and taken AWAY from you.........just because FDR was popular and won 4 times in a row. Up to then, and surely afterwards, the system would have worked JUST FINE, as it did for over 200 years.

But cons were afraid that they would never see the White House again, so they stripped everyone of their CONSTITUTIONAL right to vote for whoever you liked..........and imposed an arbitrary two term limit- ....creating a system, that guarantees, a lame duck president in his second term.----and a perpetual cycle of non stop campaigning.

Virtually every president since......had nothing to worry about , serving a 3rd possible term.

Kennedy---assassinated.

LBJ.------declined to run again.

Nixon---------Forced to Resign

Ford-----only got to finish Nixon's second term, and then lost to Carter.

Carter---One term president.

Reagan---all but senile at the end of his second term.

Bush Sr. -------One term President.

Clinton--------shot himself in the foot with all the Monica BS.

Bush Jr------left the White house with the lowest approval rating in history

Obama-----??? maybe, ..........who knows........may have gotten a 3rd term.

Trump----will be lucky to finish his first term.

So there was absolutely NO reason to change the rule........as history shows us--------as most wouldn't have gotten a 3rd term anyway, much less a 4th or 5th.......and a few couldn't even manage a second term.

So why not repeal the 22nd amendment and RESTORE our ORIGINAL rights?

Term limits just reward incompetents.

If you have a good doctor, you go back to that doctor.

If you have a good mechanic, you keep using that mechanic.

So why, if you had a god politician, would you vote for some new guy who doesn't even know his job?

The push for term limits comes from rich lobbyists and corporations, that know that incompetent politicians mean they'd get to dictate legislation.

So if your dentist has worked two or four years at dentistry after dental school, should he be fired at that point so that you get a new dentist who's just out of dental school?

I think supporters of term limits are trying to address a very real problem in our democracy - that incumbents in Congress are reelected at staggeringly high rates (90+%; maybe even as high as 98%?) because of the advantages they have in fund raising. After all, it's so much better to bribe a CURRENT member of Congress with a campaign donation than to bribe someone who HOPES to be in Congress someday!

On the other hand, the longer someone is in Congress, the more effective they are - just like any other job. And, over the years, we have benefited from that experience in the form of deals, compromises, and efficiency in guiding bills through the complicated maze of legislating. We do need to have a mechanism for allowing these members to remain in Congress if their constituents recognize that they're doing a good job and choose to keep them there.

So instead of term limits, what I would suggest is attacking the root of the problem - the bribes that are being paid in the form of campaign donations. We need to cut these way down and perhaps even put a ceiling on how much money can be spent in a campaign so as to eliminate the fund-raising/spending advantage that the incumbents enjoy.

That would take power from the DNC elite who are our royal rulers.

Our corrupt members of Congress make a good buck getting "campaign contributions" (bribes) and favors from special interest groups. They have continuously fought every effort to reform campaign finance and certainly would fight tooth and nail to stop term limits.

Because that would take a Law. And the people that it would restrict are the ones that make the laws.

Because professional politicians will never, never impose rules that limit their ability to wallow in the public trough.