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> The size of the legislatures wouldn't necessarily change, so it's the same number of people at any given time, and since there's no reelection, it ends up bei
by throw0101c 4y ago
> The size of the legislatures wouldn't necessarily change, so it's the same number of people at any given time, and since there's no reelection, it ends up being a larger number of people overall.
Except that the people in the legislature would have little to no knowledge about how things work, and so would heavily rely on the advice and expertise of the bureaucrats and lobbyists to know how to move on various topics.
With experienced legislatures they know the system and when someone is trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Some people bemoan "career politicians", but in what other profession does (more experience = bad)? Carpenters, pilots, developers?
- lapcat 4y ago> With experienced legislatures they know the system and when someone is trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Like when we invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein supposedly had weapons of mass destruction? > Some people bemoan "career politicians", but in what other profession does (more experience = bad)? Carpenters, pilots, developers? These professions aren't elected by popular vote, otherwise they would indeed be much worse.
- kqr 4y agoThe incentive for politcians is to be popular and attract votes, not do good by the people. If politicians were actually experienced at doing good, that would be great. Unfortunately the bulk of their experience is in popularity pageants, which does not prepare them for office.
- jkepler 4y agoOr its in reality TV.