• VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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    11 months ago

    You would be right on both counts.

    That being said, term limits for members of Congress to solve anything is one of those things that sound good on the surface but could actually make everything even worse.

    It’s supposed to decrease corruption by incumbents being less entrenched, but it could be the cause of much MORE corruption by making the revolving door between corrupt business interests and corrupt politics spin faster…

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, exactly!

        IMO, ranked choice voting, publicly (and only publicly) funded elections and outlawing partisan and otherwise discriminating gerrymandering would be much better solutions.

        Will probably never happen though, since the people in charge of reforming the system are themselves amongst the main beneficiaries of the corruption inherent in the system 🤦