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Would random senators be better than elected?
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Date: May 29th, 2015 5:17 PM Author: maize turdskin nowag Aren't we just limiting ourselves by picking from the group of people who self-selected as "politicians"? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27991838) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 5:19 PM Author: Mind-boggling Sooty Dog Poop Personal Credit Line bill buckley had this idea, yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27991855) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 5:20 PM Author: maize turdskin nowag Damn, I didn't run the full preemption check (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27991866) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 5:21 PM Author: At-the-ready University Generalized Bond Ran here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27991875) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 5:23 PM Author: frozen crackhouse double fault His brother was a senator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Buckley |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 5:25 PM Author: Mind-boggling Sooty Dog Poop Personal Credit Line oh snap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27991925) |
Date: May 29th, 2015 5:21 PM Author: Demanding exciting background story love of her life test-based (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27991876) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 5:23 PM Author: maize turdskin nowag Oh, without a doubt, any good merit system would prevail over elections. Then the difficulty is designing an acceptable merit system.
But I think it's arguable that even random would be preferable to elected. |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 5:25 PM Author: maize turdskin nowag Maybe merit tests for appointed positions/staffers and then randomly chosen pols. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27991922) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 7:50 PM Author: slate menage random would clearly be better, as the US Senate is now an oligarchy tightly selected and controlled by finance, corporates and AIPAC.
perhaps random among those with no police records and a positive net worth |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:03 PM Author: Mind-boggling Sooty Dog Poop Personal Credit Line (raciss) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993105) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 7:52 PM Author: charismatic brunch most americans are retarded but yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993022) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:03 PM Author: Mind-boggling Sooty Dog Poop Personal Credit Line (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993106) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 7:56 PM Author: odious topaz public bath gay wizard randoms would be bought up very quickly, you'd have to create some kind of ruling class immune to the appeals of commerce, so essentially aristocracy, who were just randoms chosen by birth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993058) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:00 PM Author: vibrant lodge puppy a civil service exam/promotion system would be best. provided it was actually objective and wasn't corrupted.
civil service promotion + limited terms = tcr. |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:01 PM Author: odious topaz public bath gay wizard that just makes test makers into our gods (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993090) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:02 PM Author: vibrant lodge puppy that's preferable to what we have now. the british empire ran its colonies to some extent on this basis, and it worked well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993101) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:03 PM Author: odious topaz public bath gay wizard with disinterested third parties at the helm, a pure technocracy sounds unbearable, just faggot perfect rule following behavior endlessly rewarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993111) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:04 PM Author: Soul-stirring Ebony Location Dysfunction No. But appointed senators, as was originally intended, would be better than elected ones. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993116) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:08 PM Author: magenta exhilarant voyeur Have a laundry list of basic competence (IQ, no huge debt vs income, healthy, etc).
Select a few dozen or so for each office. Have people vote on the top hundred or so policy questions and have each answer them.
Have some debates.
Then let the people vote.
Pay those elected a few million bucks or so and then impose a special tax if they earn more than 300k/year afterwards to limit their ability to be bought or promised lobbyist jobs etc. |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:09 PM Author: motley white locale (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993149) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:11 PM Author: Soul-stirring Ebony Location Dysfunction You have to have some basic competence with procedural shit. In many respects it is (or should be) a very practical job. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993165) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:15 PM Author: magenta exhilarant voyeur Sure, I guess, though we have aides and shit for that. I'm just spit balling here but I do agree with the thrust of the OP that full on Republican Democracy is kooky flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993199) |
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Date: May 29th, 2015 8:12 PM Author: apoplectic twisted hospital probably (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2892580&forum_id=2#27993171) |