I've long suspected that conservatives were resting their accusations against Joe #Biden on evidence that was completely manufactured since, as far as I could tell, over these years far too few had taken it seriously enough to look into it and actually see if it wasn't completely counterfeit.
Today #HunterBiden didn't do himself any favors in my eyes by addressing the press with a statement that confirmed that evidence that his attackers had been throwing around were indeed legitimate.
All of these are numbskulls who we shouldn't let anywhere near power.
NOONE should be let anywhere near political power.
@Tertle950 Oh well the key is to elect somebody who is not a numbskull.
So I hereby announce my candidacy for whatever office we're talking about 🙂
(But seriously my main point here is, can we stop electing the same people? Even if we are electing people at random, if we stop electing the idiots, then we will randomly get better people)
@volkris @niclas
> Even if we are electing people at random [...] we will randomly get better people
Oh hello, sortition. It's been a while since I've seen you discussed!
random citizen election is an interesting idea with surprising merits, and I feel like it should be discussed more
(even if only in comparison to current systems)
Well it's a little bit off topic but I feel like bringing up: :)
I think one element of representative democracy that is under appreciated is the idea that we effectively hire people to spend their time studying issues so that the rest of us don't have to.
So I would never want to promote truly random citizen election (forcing people to leave their daily lives to go deal with policy decisions), but gosh, it's fun for me to think about random selection of people who volunteered to be considered for the positions.
It amuses me to consider a system where if none of the people on the ballot get 50% or maybe even more of the vote, then one person on the ballot is chosen at random.
But.... That's just a silly flight of fancy
