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Does that mean the inability to think for the long term is a fundamental limitation of modern democracies?

• lordnacho 12y ago
  Well, I don't know if it's fundamental. I hope not. Perhaps you could change the constitution somehow. You could mess with term lengths or limit someone's tenure. Or you could have a part time parliament like in Switzerland. That way the politicians need normal jobs and are not dependent on the voters for a livelihood. The question is, once you have the current system, how are you going to get the incumbents to vote themselves out of work?
• lordnacho 12y ago
  Well, I don't know if it's fundamental. I hope not. Perhaps you could change the constitution somehow. You could mess with term lengths or limit someone's tenure. Or you could have a part time parliament like in Switzerland. That way the politicians need normal jobs and are not dependent on the voters for a livelihood. The question is, once you have the current system, how are you going to get the incumbents to vote themselves out of work?
• lordnacho 12y ago
  Well, I don't know if it's fundamental. I hope not. Perhaps you could change the constitution somehow. You could mess with term lengths or limit someone's tenure. Or you could have a part time parliament like in Switzerland. That way the politicians need normal jobs and are not dependent on the voters for a livelihood. The question is, once you have the current system, how are you going to get the incumbents to vote themselves out of work?
• lordnacho 12y ago
  Well, I don't know if it's fundamental. I hope not. Perhaps you could change the constitution somehow. You could mess with term lengths or limit someone's tenure. Or you could have a part time parliament like in Switzerland. That way the politicians need normal jobs and are not dependent on the voters for a livelihood. The question is, once you have the current system, how are you going to get the incumbents to vote themselves out of work?