water down and spread out the shittiness

I’m not arguing to keep bad politicians around for no reason, just observing that the reasons they’re shitty in the first place are separate from how long they have to do it. If we solve the problem of politicians staying in office too long but we don’t do anything about their incentives and ability to be on the take, all we’ve done is make their time in office maybe more urgent and valuable.

When in doubt, expect your designs to create unintended consequences- especially if they are simple and optimistic and don’t deal directly with the actual source of the problem.

This is not to say that we should have septuagenarians in office- I really think we shouldn’t- but fundamentally the problem is we don’t vote these people out.