80% of people favor reproductive rights and strong gun control but we aren’t getting that either.
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If your job moves to Texas, you’ll probably move to Texas. The state has always been good at attracting businesses, so people will always follow.
It might even seem like a good thing at first as the cost of entry is pretty low. It’s only later that you’ll start to experience the terribly flawed education, healthcare, gun safety, voting, power grid, property taxes…
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For the record, all the injuries were the result of the police action. It would be nice if the use of deadly force by police was more nuanced than how your fridge dispenses ice.
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Term limits have been discussed here a couple years back. If you want your representatives to have term limits, then vote for someone else.
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Right. Nobody wants term limits for their guy, they want limits on the other guys.
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For the record, I want term limits for ALL the guys and girls. Frankly, if you don’t understand how the Internet works, you shouldn’t be making decisions that affect an entire country.
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Term limits impede the harm a bad politician can do but also limit the ability of a good politician to accomplish anything beneficial. Still, being a politician should not be a career or a retirement plan.
While I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, I think the damage a lack of term limits can do is far more significant than the positives an elder statesman can help with these days.
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Ever.
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I wonder where Arkansas and Mississippi ranked?
I am against term limits but pro replacing congress with a randomly drafted body of citizens that serve as in jury duty.
Mississippi and Arkansas are 33rd and 37th respectively.
Full list here…
You have to sort it using the life, health and inclusion column.
This sounds like a great idea until the random drafted body ends up being 1/4 MTGs and Lauren Boberts.
We can work with 3/4 reasonable people. Imagine if we had that now.
What on earth makes you think 3/4 of the people are reasonable?
I was responding to Mark’s math.
But you’re still assuming that you can somehow draw a random population where 3/4 of them are reasonable. You’d be lucky to get 1 out of 10, and the MTG/Boebert crowd would run roughshod.
We disagree.
Reasonable vs. unreasonable doesn’t have to be binary; it could also be a spectrum. If 1/4 are MTGs and Boeberts, then you’ll just end up with something close to the current House/Senate.
As long as it’s not actually Greene or Boebert, you stand a chance of compromise happening because even the purist random MAGA hat wearer is not going to be looking over their shoulder at a primary challenge every time they have to make a decision on anything.
I say this in no way shape or form as an endorsement of the original concept, however.