Incumbancy

So I'm doing this assignment for another class where we gerrimander the Wisconsin congresional districts, and it got me thinking. We talked about incumbancy gerrimandering in this class, and we talked about it like it was satans poop, the dirtiest of dirty.
I think this is a funny hypocrasy. We've all (or most) worked jobs, and we know there is a learning curve, we also know that talent often comes from experience. Yet whenever people talk about politics it's like nirvana would be a world where the average tenure of a congressperson is all of 6 years. Maybe a little job security isn't so bad after all. Just ask the Professor.
You see a tenured professor can actually kill a man in texas just to watch them die, and still keep their job*. This is done so that Professors can present unconventional ideas without fear, this is why Professors have autonomy and teahcers don't. So how does this relate to politics you say?
A candidtate that feels secure in ther job can take on heated issues, they can stand up to the party and the media, they can show a litle intestinal fortitude. I'm not an uber-liberal, but I love Feingold, because he encompases those qualities.
Furthermore, If you are confident you'll have your job for the next twenty years, maybe you wont be so shortsighted, maybe your more likely to look at the big picture.
Part of the reason Steve jobs is so good at running Apple is because he's been doing it for a long long time. The best CEO's have been working at it their whole life and the best basketball players have been training since they were five. Can't we aknowledge that a congressperson with 20 years tenure is probably better at their job than a freshman or even somone who has been working 10 years. You can say "no" now, but wait till your 40.




*probably not true