What alternative ways can you think of to handle making legislation and passing laws that would negate the increasingly polarized political climate that is happening in more and more countries?

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Randomly drawing citizen. Sure politics require some training, but it can be done on the job

    Also, countries with proportional votes tend to force politicians to talk with each other more than countries with single representative per district.

    Limiting elected official mandates to one or two. If you couldn’t do something in 10 years no reason to think you’ll do it latter

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I’ve toyed with the idea of staffing the House by sortition. Maybe not entirely random, pooling from State and local offices might be more practical, political efficacy is a skill and a little experience is valuable.

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      3 months ago

      Have you worked with people recently? A decent amount can’t learn anything and don’t take personal accountability. I guess that does sound like Congress.