Politics and Hollywood. The nepo tradition being kept alive. We need change, not the entrenched establishment of old people telling their young people how to game the system.
If there is anything I am sure about it is that the children of politicians are largely useless.
Statistically it is a far superior choice to literally pick a random person off the street.
This would not work in USA haha. We’d inevitability have method heads getting elected yo office at some point.
I love the idea though. Maybe we could implement it at some point with some minimum qualifications or something.
If you have a large enough parliamentary body whose members are chosen randomly, then having a couple of nutjobs on it, also maybe one or two murderers or rapists, would not take away from the entire body being able to function and make sensible decisions.
I’d argue the current Western democratic systems based on elections lead to a stark overrepresentation of criminals and assholes in government.
The electoral system we currently have is not democratic. Sortition/aleatoric is the only real form of democracy.
You kidding? Lots of politicians now are on way more than just meth. Sortition with a recall vote and the ability for those selected to recuse themselves would be a much more representative sample than the politicians we have now.
George Bush Jr was a coke head so close enough
I mean the states isnt the only place that has folks who are out in the wilderness. in dublin par examplé, if you go north of the river that divides the city in half on the main street you will encounter a herion user in under 30 seconds
Let’s just “jury duty” all of our government. Shit couldn’t be worse.
I like the idea of someone getting a card in the mail saying “youve been selected for senate duty” and them groaning and having to call their boss to tell them they cant come in on time next Wednesday because they have to vote on whether or not KOSA should pass
Have you met average Americans? Fuck that.
As long as we’re dreaming, we can dream about an education system that turns out functional adults.
Filter by GPA first then.
They know a good grift when they see it.
Angus King III? Oh, the person whose father voted to kill tens of millions of people by voting to take away their healthcare? Automatic NOPE!
Politics was never supposed to be a nepotist endeavor.
John Quincy Adams agrees.
So does G W Bush.
We need a constitutional amendment forbidding members of one’s immediate family from running for office above a certain level. Spouses, children, and siblings are all right out. Exactly where the cutoff is is open to discussion, but presidents and members of congress should be forbidden from trading on their family name for elected office.
I propose we don’t vote for legacy politicians. Go live in the world your parents chose for all of us.
This is why you need mail in voting. You get a pamphlet of their views and time to really look at the candidates.
Mail in, ranked, no electoral college, no districts.
If you’re going to have 2 chambers of parliament, you may as well have one be elected via districts (with ranked choice) and the other be proportional representation
They want us to literally vote in monarchy?
We already have been.
Oh boy, our own House of Lords!
It still blows my mind that that exists in the modern era.
American politics has always had a “legacy” problem, among other things.
Why Sanders didn’t endorse his brother when he ran for office. Sanders hates nepotism. Fucking Hollywood is full of it. We don’t need it in our politics.
It will be easy to vote against them if the names are recognizable
People are trying to make family dynasties.
Fuck that mess, we need new blood. Same family, same bullshit
