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This whole debate stems from the fact that we have career politicians, which (at the federal level, at least) is not what the founders envisioned. A citizen legislature cannot, by definition, exist when it's filled by people who have never had a real job.

Term limits fixes this from both ends. Politicians are allowed their privacy, because they're just regular people and nobody is going to get rid from a single Senate term or 3-4 House terms. It eliminates the incentive to associate one's self more with DC than your home district. And it would probably result in people having a better opinion of Congress as a whole because it's not filled with people who have never done anything else.