term limits are a crap idea. they end up giving power to unelected staffers and lobbyists. also they are undemocratic. amendment limiting presidential terms has been really harmful. prevents popular democrats from running. if there were no term limits, obama would be pres now.
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To be clear, I'm specifically criticizing the juxtaposition Noah was making, saying if the options really came down to perpetual gerontocracy or perpetual lobbyist power I'd much rather have the latter and curb its worst excesses
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People should frankly be disgusted by gerontocracy, avoiding it should be meritorious for its own sake Lobbyists are BETTER than being indefinitely paternalistically controlled
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Like, lobbying formalizes the process so that people can pool resources to do the same thing rich people can just do on their own
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Nothing can actually stop some CEO who's been friends with a Senator since college from buying him lunch or showing up after work to hang out and try to influence his opinions Lobbying just means a union or activist org opposed to that CEO can hire someone to do the same thing
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