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I'd go further and say once you've been a politician at a certain level, you should be banned from being in politics for the rest of your life. Why? Because i
by prirun 5y ago
I'd go further and say once you've been a politician at a certain level, you should be banned from being in politics for the rest of your life. Why? Because if a person's total purpose in life is to be a politician, IMO they will eventually be a bad / corrupt one. If a person goes into with "here's my attempt to make things better for 4 years", great. But that's all you get.
I'd also ban the next 2 generations in the family from going into politics. If grandpa did it, you can't, and you can't benefit from his connections. It's not like we are talking about a lot of people.
The main issue in politics IMO is that greed is a human characteristics that we aren't likely to soon be rid of.
- nescioquid 5y agoI've always wondered about using a lottery system for public service, other than jury selection.
- floxy 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
- torstenvl 5y agoThis is a terrible proposal whose immediate and obvious effect would be to worsen corruption. No rational human being could believe that making sure power can only be wielded by the naive and weak-willed, while banning lifelong public servants, will somehow shield it from manipulation. You effectively want to set up a Fellowship of only Hobbits, and expect them to stand up to Sauron without the assistance of the elves or humans or Gandalf.