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human
I believe Term Limits in a democracy are really just a lazy alternative to actively participating in the democratic process, and actually do more harm than good. CMV

Is your Congressman lazy? Hard-working? Corrupt? Honest? Ideological? Practical? Crazy? Data-driven? Term limits ensures that an elected official who embodies any of these qualities will be prevented from continuing to serve in the public domain past a given point. 

Now, obviously we don't want lazy, corrupt, ideological, crazy people serving in our government. But why should we subject the hard-working, honest, practical, data-driven people to the same standards? 

I believe that citizens use term limits as a catch-all to guard against [a repeat of] the former at the expense of the latter, when we would be SO much better served as a citizenry if people would simply do their due diligent research on politicians and what they've been doing, and re-elect or throw them out accordingly.

People use the term "career politician" in an overwhelmingly pejorative sense, but is it really such a bad thing for us to have, as our elected representatives, people who actually listen to expert opinion and analysis on a given topic, and who know how to write, debate, and pass legislation on said topic?

Obviously the last part of this is a utopian ideal, but in my opinion it is one that we, in a representative democracy, must strive for. CMV.
gpt
Two words: Incumbency Advantage. Incumbents are nearly always re-elected. Challengers face numerous disadvantages when running against an incumbent, ranging from the fact that the incumbent has higher name recognition to the incumbent's ability to use the franking privilege to  tell all the voters the good things he or she has done in office. With all of these advantages built into the system, challengers generally don't win against incumbents, regardless of who's views most closely represent those of the district. Having two (or more) challengers on more-or-less equal footing gives a better chance of reflecting what the voters really want.