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It will be interesting when the election cycles start to cross over into eachother. For instance, start lining up primaries for an election 5 years away. We cou
by jeffdavis 7y ago
It will be interesting when the election cycles start to cross over into eachother. For instance, start lining up primaries for an election 5 years away. We could be in a permenent election, with people slowly positioning themselves to be elected sometime later.
Then, we can finally give up and just draft our representatives. Two months before it's time for new politicians to take over, they would draw names, and do 6am door-kicking raids to abduct the "candidates" and take them to D.C. to represent us.
- mlpinit 7y agoMultivac to the rescue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)
- leggomylibro 7y ago>We could be in a permenent election, with people slowly positioning themselves to be elected sometime later. Aren't we already there? The current US president held his first 2020 campaign rally on February 18 2017, less than a month after his inauguration: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/campaign-over-president-trump-will-hold-a-what-else-campaign-rally.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/campaign-over...
- dillondoyle 7y agoI might be misunderstand but politicians have always positioned themselves to be elected sometime later. In fact it seems the opposite is just gaining some steam, first time candidates running for high office as first race, when it used to be slowly going from local to national.
- ajmurmann 7y agoTrump never stopped campaigning as it is. He has been holding rallies this entire time.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoWho are those people who go to political rallies? This feels so alien to me. Americans support their politicians like the rest of the world their local club and badge and vice versa.
- ajmurmann 7y agoHaving grown up in Germany, the concept is super scary.
- evunveot 7y agoI'd say the phenomenon is pretty unique to Trump and Sanders. In Trump's case, his speeches are largely stand-up comedy, and the parts that aren't played for laughs contain the kind of rah-rah patriotism that people come out to see at 4th of July parades and the like. Most Americans are indifferent or hostile to their representatives, when they even know who they are.
- mattr47 7y agoThe only thing a first term president cares about is a second term. Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton etc all did this.
- AgentME 7y ago>Then, we can finally give up and just draft our representatives. This is called sortition. It's basically what we do to select jurors already. Athens did this to select their officials (though people had to opt in to be selectable) and they thought it was obviously better than elections.