If there is anything I am sure about it is that the children of politicians are largely useless.
Statistically it is a far superior choice to literally pick a random person off the street.
This would not work in USA haha. We’d inevitability have method heads getting elected yo office at some point.
I love the idea though. Maybe we could implement it at some point with some minimum qualifications or something.
You kidding? Lots of politicians now are on way more than just meth. Sortition with a recall vote and the ability for those selected to recuse themselves would be a much more representative sample than the politicians we have now.
Politics and Hollywood. The nepo tradition being kept alive. We need change, not the entrenched establishment of old people telling their young people how to game the system.
They know a good grift when they see it.
Let’s just “jury duty” all of our government. Shit couldn’t be worse.
I like the idea of someone getting a card in the mail saying “youve been selected for senate duty” and them groaning and having to call their boss to tell them they cant come in on time next Wednesday because they have to vote on whether or not KOSA should pass
Have you met average Americans? Fuck that.
As long as we’re dreaming, we can dream about an education system that turns out functional adults.
Filter by GPA first then.
Angus King III? Oh, the person whose father voted to kill tens of millions of people by voting to take away their healthcare? Automatic NOPE!
I propose we don’t vote for legacy politicians. Go live in the world your parents chose for all of us.
Politics was never supposed to be a nepotist endeavor.
John Quincy Adams agrees.
So does G W Bush.
Oh boy, our own House of Lords!
It will be easy to vote against them if the names are recognizable
This is why you need mail in voting. You get a pamphlet of their views and time to really look at the candidates.
We need a constitutional amendment forbidding members of one’s immediate family from running for office above a certain level. Spouses, children, and siblings are all right out. Exactly where the cutoff is is open to discussion, but presidents and members of congress should be forbidden from trading on their family name for elected office.
Americans had made it clear that we don’t take chances on electing politician relatives and family.
There had only been two instances where father and son served as presidents. The last time this happened, the Bushes ruined this country. We didn’t want Hilary Clinton, despite how well Bill Clinton was as president (and these days we probably won’t want him anymore because of Epstein). We shot down Jeb Bush’s chance of making it in office.
And if Donnie’s little son wants to run, we’ll shoot him down too.
Bill Clinton was a horrible president, balanced the budget on the backs of the working poor and more “tough on crime” neoliberal cut taxes for the rich and corpos, sold us NAFTA by telling us our manufacured goods would cost less and Mexican standards of living would improve and both were lies. And he threw a vulnerable barely out of college aged kid under the bus for one of many dalliances.
You’ve barely even scratched the surface.
He also destroyed the social safety net, he cut the regulations that caused the 2008 crash and let billionaires buy up the press…
He really just cut all the straps holding our county together. I’m still learning new ways on how he opened us up to the problems we’re now facing
Bill “Reagan Lite” Clinton really.
Oh I know! When I said he balanced the budget on the backs of the working poor, cutting social safety net is exactly what I meant and then some. And let’s not pretend Obama was better. He was better on idpol but once again, he was socially ledt and economically right. Corporations and ultrawealthy got tax cuts at the expense of the poor.
We can do better, and politicians can do better; but they won’t until we make them do it.
Agreed. It was uniparty bullshit. The neolibs and neocons are basically the same, plus or minus a couple superficial issues
We can’t go back to that bullshit. We have the political momentum, we have to vote in progressives
Define conservative please.
Lmao wtf, I use swipe typing. I don’t know how the fuck progressive turned into conservative
No, I meant progressive. I can define that if you like, but I see where the confusion is lol
Lol! Thanks so much, I was thoroughly confused.
They want us to literally vote in monarchy?
We already have been.
