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https://bsky.app/profile/katmabu.bsky.social
https://www.katforillinois.com/issues/democratic-reform
She's very online so I assumed the next paragraph would make it clear her "five term" pledge was a joke. But there's nothing. I don't know which is worse. One, she's serious. Two, she's joking and she assumes the average normie will somehow clearly understand that.
There’s this misunderstanding of old politicians who’ve been in Congress a long time holding corporate-friendly positions where the assumption is “they must hold these positions because they’re old and antiquated in their thinking, if we kept people from serving more than a handful of terms this wouldn’t happen.” The problem with this is that it’s the corporate lobbying and Congresscritter-to-lobbyist pipeline that keeps that ossified pro-corporate culture in DC, not the politicians being old.
So if Kat got into office and had decent politics, her stepping down after five terms and then a Gen Alpha
taking the seat would not be a net positive. Plus, there is a system to the way Congress works and more senior politicians in party serve to educate the newer members on that system. Without that senior group, the only people in DC who will know that system are, the lobbyists. So it’ll just make the system more beholden to lobbyists.