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To: Neoliberalnot
An effective part of the ‘deep state’ is career employees with strong institutional memory - people who know where the levers of power are - and how to use them.

Term limits gives those employees of the deep state more power while keeping elected officials in the permanent position of being 'newbies'.

Term limits weakens our Representatives and strengthen the power of the bureaucracy...

You're coming from a good place Neoliberalnot because term limits are a good idea in theory... but reality makes it a horror. Possibly if all civil service employees in DC were also 'term limited' it might work but that's unlikely to happen - and has major downsides too.

70 posted on 11/27/2017 6:57:21 AM PST by GOPJ (https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/)
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To: GOPJ

Legislators make the laws and worse yet are judges who decide what laws they like even if supported by popular vote. Note that trump had the power to override EPA’s desire to shut down the coal industry. Absent term limits, legislators become just like the bureaucracy employees, in it for their entire careers just like the bureaucrats.


71 posted on 11/27/2017 5:24:31 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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