A possible solution to leadership failure is clear: Scrap elections and replace them with democratic lotteries. In place of elected officials would be, as the ancient Greeks envisioned, Ho Boulomenous, or “anyone who wishes.”
Instead of electing rich, polished politicians who are tied to special interests, we should be getting the masses to govern. They want to replace the entire legislature with ordinary people, selected at random in the same way we choose jackpot winners.
Wonder if this would work? I mean jurors are chosen randomly (in the USA anyway). I’m not involved in US politics, but it did get me thinking that there are a lot of problems with politics in general, and politicians. With a random process we’d also end up rotating these people like banks do for bank managers to ensure there is no entrenchment and working around the system. Can it be worse than is already happening in some countries? Clearly “elected officials” have not been shining brightly around the world.
hmmmm…if its just one randomly selected weirdo i see the problesm. but like, if all the congresspeople, and judges, and everyone was selected that way…
it being only citizens (while the systemic issues in the US persist) is an issue but i dont have any better ideas.
idk seems worth thinking about honestly.
Yes politicians are not especially qualified - they need to ask questions, put the interests of citizens first, not be corrupt, etc. I’d gather it is a representation so may be more than one. Gov officials, judges, engineers, etc need to be qualified in what they do.