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I've never heard of this! What about seniority or as HN might call it 'institutional knowledge'? 60% 'safe' seat that used to be held by same Member for life,

I've never heard of this! What about seniority or as HN might call it 'institutional knowledge'? 60% 'safe' seat that used to be held by same Member for life, now 4 out of 10 times is not. And how do you solve for problems with crazy people or super super extreme. Even in a large body like the US House, one member can do a decent amount of damage.

aidenn0 7y ago
> And how do you solve for problems with crazy people or super super extreme. Even in a large body like the US House, one member can do a decent amount of damage. Yes, the specifics of the parliamentary procedure used would have to be adjusted so that a single bad actor can't dominate the whole body. OTOH I've seen a single bad actor in smaller systems (think HOA[1] board) get controlled fairly easily with Robert's rules and a professional parliamentarian. > What about seniority or as HN might call it 'institutional knowledge'? 60% 'safe' seat that used to be held by same Member for life, now 4 out of 10 times is not. Some people think of this as a feature rather than a bug; there is a long history of suspicion of career politicians. I'm not so sure myself, as there is something to institutional knowledge. You could solve this by having every region elect N representatives and each ballot list N candidates in order of preference. At N=4 a 60% popular politician would be elected 98% of the time. At N=2 a 60% popular politician could expect to serve for 2 terms over 70% of the time, which is in keeping with some suggested term limits. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association
- dillondoyle 7y ago
  haha look at Ted Cruz ;) !! though perhaps Senate isn't a big enough body I can find examples in the House too yeah no one polls as bad as Congress, but I don't want some 'randomly' chosen Freshman as Speaker. I've found that Reps that have actually competitive races are by far the most responsive by necessity to their District and I think that's a better 'fix' than this proposal.

aidenn0 7y ago

> And how do you solve for problems with crazy people or super super extreme. Even in a large body like the US House, one member can do a decent amount of damage. Yes, the specifics of the parliamentary procedure used would have to be adjusted so that a single bad actor can't dominate the whole body. OTOH I've seen a single bad actor in smaller systems (think HOA[1] board) get controlled fairly easily with Robert's rules and a professional parliamentarian. > What about seniority or as HN might call it 'institutional knowledge'? 60% 'safe' seat that used to be held by same Member for life, now 4 out of 10 times is not. Some people think of this as a feature rather than a bug; there is a long history of suspicion of career politicians. I'm not so sure myself, as there is something to institutional knowledge. You could solve this by having every region elect N representatives and each ballot list N candidates in order of preference. At N=4 a 60% popular politician would be elected 98% of the time. At N=2 a 60% popular politician could expect to serve for 2 terms over 70% of the time, which is in keeping with some suggested term limits. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association

dillondoyle 7y ago
haha look at Ted Cruz ;) !! though perhaps Senate isn't a big enough body I can find examples in the House too yeah no one polls as bad as Congress, but I don't want some 'randomly' chosen Freshman as Speaker. I've found that Reps that have actually competitive races are by far the most responsive by necessity to their District and I think that's a better 'fix' than this proposal.