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> Term limits lead to institutional knowledge and skills being concentrated in unelected staffers and lobbyists.

Who cares? They don't get to cast the votes.



They were casting Feinstein’s for years.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dian...


I'd rather the people casting the votes have (on average) a decent amount of institutional knowledge and skills. Otherwise, they either end up leaning on others to inform their decisions, or (worse) they end up making decisions that aren't informed at all.




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