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The_Waxies_Dargle t1_ivlmi9b wrote

Reply to comment by sllewgh in Fox attack on Baltimore? by AlwaysGrateful710

> Voters should decide when someone's term is up, not term limits.

Unless they vote FOR term limits. Then the voters are deciding that the incumbent advantage is undemocratic and we shouldn't be beholden to ineffective politicians just because they got elected once.

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sllewgh t1_ivlnya3 wrote

>Unless they vote FOR term limits. Then the voters are deciding that the incumbent advantage is undemocratic

You throw the baby out with the bath water by preventing people that are actually good from continuing to serve.

>and we shouldn't be beholden to ineffective politicians just because they got elected once.

Then vote the ineffective ones out instead of passing a policy that's indiscriminate.

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