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I think it is flawed at an even more fundamental level: what does “multi-partisan” mean, and how do you achieve it? It seems like the term was used simply to m
by baddox 9y ago
I think it is flawed at an even more fundamental level: what does “multi-partisan” mean, and how do you achieve it?
It seems like the term was used simply to mean “fair and not favoring any particular political agenda,” but that is a huge hand-wave. Who decides the members of this agency? If we had a good method to establish this fair agency, we could just use that method to establish the entire government.
This proposal just pushes the entire problem of governance back one step. I see this a lot in discussions about improving government: proposing some oversight committee to keep the government (which we all agree has flaws and biases) in check. Even the entire idea of checks and balances between branches of government is based on this concept, and is flawed for the same reasons (although that’s a bigger discussion). If you can make the oversight committee fair and efficient and effective, just do that for the whole government!