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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Came out of nowhere? That is the whole purpose of community forums. Someone posts something, other people read it and post replies and discuss a topic. You posted something that you claimed would definitely reduce the number of crappy career politicians and I disagree because your proposal allows for those crappy politicians to potentially hold their position for 16 or so years which doesn't solve any of the issues related to crappy career politicians.
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We literally currently have politicians who have served for longer than 16 years. For you to suggest that having a limit of 16 years wouldn’t have any affect is both illogical and ignorant of the facts. It would literally not allow those career politicians to be there.
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I'm sorry that you see disagreement as such an affront to discussion but you won't always get buy in to your ideas. I subsequently offered my opinion on what could be done and you dismissed it as offering no value. You're throwing stones from a glass house.
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Doubling down on the gaslighting I see. Good grief.
You said there was no way politicians would agree to 16 years and then suggested that we should go with 8 years anyways. There’s no way you could possibly believe that there is a better chance of them agreeing to 8 years if you don’t think they’d agree to 16 years so it’s a pointless suggestion in the context that you brought it up in.
I don’t disagree with you that 16 years might be less than ideal, and I never said that 8 years would be bad if we could ever get there but both of those things are completely irrelevant. My suggestion was a road map to getting term limits implemented in the first place and a potential number that might work to get us there, your counter suggestion was what you want currently non-existent term limits to be with no ideas on how to get them implemented in some shape or form in the first place.
If you can’t understand how that doesn’t add anything productive in terms of coming up with ways to actually get term limits legislated in some form or another, I’m not sure what to tell you.