I am running out of time to type up a comment right now, so I apologize for just link dumping, but if you have time, I encourage you to check these out:
Thank you for posting links to some points supporting your side of the argument! I would rather have a discussion in good faith personally!
I think a lot of the downsides are better fixed in other ways though and that relying on life long political animals is a bad practice. I compare it a lot to IT (my given speciality) where yes retention is good but there is a healthy churn to experience new ideas and systems should be built with turn over in mind. Representives also shouldn’t need to be professional law makers IMHO, that is a secondary skill to the primary of representing their constituency.
Some fixes to specific issues mentioned though to me are:
More members of congress to increase the talent pool (it also increased the cost to bribe a given vote and means reps can cater to smaller demographic each)
Public agencies should be given a lobbying budget specifically to lend their view and expertise on their given subjects to congress. Private lobbying should not be allowed to exceed in time or cost this lobbying.
There should be explicit non-party specific training for rules and procedures for congress members.
No. I think age plays a factor into power dynamics (more time to accrue wealth and all), but not enough in our current life spans to be an issue.
Term limits though I support because the ability to manipulate the voting system for decades is far to enticing and creates perverse incentives.
I am running out of time to type up a comment right now, so I apologize for just link dumping, but if you have time, I encourage you to check these out:
The Brookings Institute – Five reasons to oppose congressional term limits
NPR – Term limits for Congress are wildly popular. But most experts say they’d be a bad idea
Sorry, this is one of those issues I go die on a hill for, like hating DST. (And everyone downvotes me!)
Thank you for posting links to some points supporting your side of the argument! I would rather have a discussion in good faith personally!
I think a lot of the downsides are better fixed in other ways though and that relying on life long political animals is a bad practice. I compare it a lot to IT (my given speciality) where yes retention is good but there is a healthy churn to experience new ideas and systems should be built with turn over in mind. Representives also shouldn’t need to be professional law makers IMHO, that is a secondary skill to the primary of representing their constituency.
Some fixes to specific issues mentioned though to me are:
More members of congress to increase the talent pool (it also increased the cost to bribe a given vote and means reps can cater to smaller demographic each)
Public agencies should be given a lobbying budget specifically to lend their view and expertise on their given subjects to congress. Private lobbying should not be allowed to exceed in time or cost this lobbying.
There should be explicit non-party specific training for rules and procedures for congress members.