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The flip side to this is having a legislature who will never have career lawmakers, and so will never have the kind of experience or insight one gets from doing
by bcgraham 9y ago
The flip side to this is having a legislature who will never have career lawmakers, and so will never have the kind of experience or insight one gets from doing something as a long-term career. It also invites people to run for legislative bodies as a kind of super-credential, like getting a master's degree; it becomes a resume-builder.
- rgarrett88 9y agoYou can have career lawmakers, just not in the same office. Cycling politicians between local, state, national would probably do a lot of good for each level.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoIs that worse than filling both houses with legislators-for-hire? (I'm choosing my words carefully.)
- baddox 9y agoI think the bigger problem with conflicting goals is that we want each small district to have its own representative for its own unique local interests (that’s the only reason to have per-district legislators), and we also want the entire legislature to represent the interests of the entire population. These two desires are, in some cases, fundamentally in conflict. That’s why we can and often do observe very low approval ratings of the entire legislature, despite each district presumably having higher approval of its own representative.