I agree with you that when it becomes a life-long job, that’s really when things get dangerous. It also allows for political dynasties within certain families. Which doesn’t necessarily mean anything good for the American people.

I’m for them. I think people Should have enough time in Congress to work on long-term agendas, but the lack of term limits plus gerrymandering means people doing nothing good stay in for way too long.

People aren’t voting them out though. They pay so much attention to the presidential election that their representatives are just a blind checkbox.

create an unelected political class that wields the actual power while answering to no one.

I’m not sure that it’s more about the fact that they were new than their agenda. They were idealistic, and I don’t know that we should discourage that, even if it sometimes causes gridlock. We get gridlock anyways, so 6 of one... I do agree that having too short a limit would be bad, but having a system which is as…

Are term limits a bad idea, for the House of Representatives? We have a Congress with continually abysmal approval ratings, where an overwhelming majority of incumbents win their races. You can say a lame duck has no accountability, but a lack of accountability can free people up to look at decisions in different…

I said below that this is good news because it will never get 2/3 of each house and will piss off all the Republicans, but it occurs to me now that if it does somehow pass - term limits for Congress are a popular proposal - it’s a little scary. Reducing the legislature’s power relative to the executive is kind of a…

I fail to see why term limits for congressmen are any better or worse than term limits for POTUS. I mean the only reason to have either is to prevent repeated election. By the same token I don’t see how some form of limit would be any more detrimental for congress than it is for POTUS.

You can pretty much guarantee that anytime someone references the First Amendment in an argument, they’re a fucking moron who has no clue what the First Amendment is.

Are you familiar with the concept of conscientious objection?

No joke, I had a routine check-up scheduled at the doctor today. They took my blood pressure. It was fucking 160.

Context is incredibly important in a discussion; have you ever said “epic” and meant something other than a long-form poem?

...I’ll wait.

Their response is limited to “Wow, so that guy won.” Not “Why did they elect this person? He’s not the right person for the job.”

The whole DNC scene was a tabloid in its larval stages, from Wasserman-Schultz to Weiner to Podesta. Not one of them respected Clinton or her message, and they became liabilities in turn.

This is the worst kind of argumentation. You see those Johnson voters? The ones that quadrupled Stein’s turnout in those states? They weren’t leaning Clinton. If anything, they siphoned off traditionally Republican-leaning voters. They weren’t disaffected Bernie Bros.

Fifty-eight percent of white Americans voters,

Lol, you don’t even own a non-grey account.

Totally agree. I think Liberals need to take a long look in the mirror and think about one thing, arrogance. They have been so cocky and arrogant about this election cycle or the last two or three. It jumped up and bit them in the ass in a huge way last night.

Spoiler alert: it’s not going to get better for them. It’s been downhill for them since the Reagan administration, but they keep voting for the folks that ship their jobs overseas, bankrupt their pensions, pull their social safety nets, etc. Asking for sympathy while shooting yourself in the foot really only…

“It can be hard to put your finger on exactly what you fear most about the rise of Donald Trump: the racism? The sexism? The xenophobia? The profoundly dangerous lack of judgment?”