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In reply to the discussion: Is arguing that older elected officials should make way for younger ones "Identity Politics?" [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)14. Codeine's dead on - elections are the best term limits
The kind of term limits you're talking about not only take out all of the experience, wisdomvand institutional memory, they would also give us more Ted Cruzes and fewerTed Kennedys - and Bernie Sanders would be a long distant memory ...
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Is arguing that older elected officials should make way for younger ones "Identity Politics?" [View all]
EffieBlack
Dec 2018
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how about less qualified make way for more qualified, based on actually results? nt
msongs
Dec 2018
#6
We tried term-limits. They lasted just long enough to knock out a very good Democrat,
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#76
If you think my OP referred to some random post about AOC, you haven't been paying attention to the
EffieBlack
Dec 2018
#43
LOL! Folks jump in a thread about identity politics that doesn't mention or refer to AOC,
EffieBlack
Dec 2018
#57
Voting is highly personal so I *try* not to tell others who or what to focus on.
SMC22307
Dec 2018
#109
As my tenured professors would say when asked why they don't retire at retirement age.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2018
#17
Darn, that sounds almost like a lot of politicians. The ones who can't bother to read
Autumn
Dec 2018
#21
And, therefore, based on this one lackadaisical professor somewhere on Americs
EffieBlack
Dec 2018
#22
Let's get real, for 80% of the politicans, the party gatekeepers select the candidate.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2018
#29
If you really want to get real, you'd face the fact that the PEOPLE WHO VOT select the candidate
EffieBlack
Dec 2018
#31
Well, the premise that the Democratic Party is a Ground Up Institution changed over the years.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2018
#33
"If voters don't know the candidate, they will just vote for the existing elected official"
EffieBlack
Dec 2018
#34
There are several components to winning an election, each is required for success.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2018
#35
Interesting, I now deploying Russian counter propaganda tools to suppress voting?
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2018
#48
South Jerseyan--It's difficult to get on a township Democratic ticket without a Norcross blessing.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2018
#52
Can an older, newly-elected Member be considered "fresh talent" or is age alone the issue?
EffieBlack
Dec 2018
#51
Identity Politics...ugh. Stupid term. Identity politics is just an insult the right uses against...
TCJ70
Dec 2018
#86
It is a way of attacking effective leadership by appealing to idealism. Much like Bernie does.
PubliusEnigma
Dec 2018
#101
It's pretty difficult to argue that looking at a candidate's experience is "identity politics"
EffieBlack
Dec 2018
#110