Impeachment demonstrates dire need for term limits

Recommendable! Yes, Western democracies urgently need term limits for all elected politicians! 

"In fact, 84 of the 535 members of Congress who are currently involved in the Trump impeachment also cast votes in the Clinton impeachment, ... Even more astonishing, one congressman – Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) – was in the U.S. House when President Nixon’s impeachment inquiry began, which took place 47 years ago. ... The scourge of career politicianism is worse in the Senate than the House. Of the 100 senators who decided Trump’s fate, 28 also cast votes in the Clinton impeachment. ... presidential candidate Joe Biden was a senator during both Nixon’s impeachment inquiry and Clinton’s impeachment. Biden, elected to the U.S. Senate in 1973 at the age of 30, served in the upper chamber for a whopping 36 years. ... “From 2009 to 2012, the average net worth change of a freshman member of the 112th Congress in three years was 50 percent.” ... In 1788, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I apprehend that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of president and senator will end in abuse. But my confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.”"

Impeachment demonstrates dire need for term limits | TheHill: One might be surprised to know that many of the characters in the impeachment of President Donald Trump were also roaming the halls of Congress 21 years ago during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.