1/ Lamar Smith has no business chairing the House Science Committee — not because of his age, but because of his ignorance. Term limits wouldn’t fix that.https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1072744826972528640 …
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2/ The hope is that term limits would break up bad political power structures. And, they might! But, they probably wouldn’t.
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3/ Mostly, without changing other components, I think the best case is term limits doing no additional harm. The power structures lie in the periphery —new members would just end up rehydrating the same Leviathan. ...and, I think that best case is the unlikely one.
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4/ More realistically, I think it would just end up moving us further down the road to oligarchy. There are better ways to repair the electoral connection.
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