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> Politicians [...] don’t want to be advocating for them for fear of losing elections.

This assumes that the politician plans and has a chance to become re-elected. If this is not the case, the arguments for not advocating for such laws become much less important for the respective politician.

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A politician can rarely enact laws alone, and the above issues typically apply to enough politicians at a time to make having a quorum difficult.
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Is there anywhere with one term limits for law makers with no staggered terms? If every member of a parliament is yoloing it, I'm not aure if things would be better or worse.
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Don't you think it also comes down to "exploitation" and not shame alone?
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