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That is an L take. Having a term limit helps increase the difficulty of making political dynasties. It doesn't make it impossible, but it sure is gonna make it harder for a certain person or group to solidify their power base.
Sure would suck for the candidate everyone wants to win to lose to someone worse because of term limits.
This is the point he was trying to make, and I agree with it wholeheartedly.
Not really, the difference between two people of the same ideology to fulfill your democratic needs whom one can find in a population of a few million can be very small.
Something being democratic is not the only criterion, because you wouldn't want your neighbors to vote in favor of collectively owning you as a slave, even if your vote against gets counted.
It's just one safety measure - if a politician still would win an election after 8 years (life changes entirely in only 1 year), for example, that's likely for wrong reasons. Like using administrative resource, pro-government mass media, crooked elites etc.