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How about a nice long term for senators. Maybe 10 years. But you only get to do it once. Then, for the house of representatives, we could leverage Zoom and f
by rootusrootus 5y ago
How about a nice long term for senators. Maybe 10 years. But you only get to do it once.
Then, for the house of representatives, we could leverage Zoom and fill it with a few thousand representatives, make the terms very short, and then pick them through sortition.
- pc86 5y agoI like the idea of sortition but I can't help of feel you'd end up with employed full-time legislative staff just becoming the de facto representatives. If you're an unemployed HS dropout who gets selected to be a representative, you're either going to listen to the committee staffer who's been working on this tax or education bill for the last 2 years, you're going to listen to whatever other representative manages to convince you to just vote however they vote, or you're just going to vote randomly (or not at all). Option 1 seems most likely.
- bombcar 5y agoGiven how obviously current politicians just "vote like they're supposed to" I fear you're correct. You'd have to add something else to sortition, like the legislature themselves have to come up with the laws without the staffers, or sortition them too.
- rootusrootus 5y agoPerhaps requiring all legislation to start with the senate would help mitigate that somewhat.
- lkrubner 5y agoWe can go further down this road, moving all political power to the committees: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-usa-become?s=w https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-us...