We’re almost where we could do a Draft Lottery for all legislative, judiciary, and executive offices; anybody who wanted the job would not be qualified (and I like the <$100k requirement - adjusted for inflation), but a random (truly random, not like the early Vietnam-era) lottery would pick the candidates, who would post a resume. Period.
NO campaigns. NO campaign money.
While we’re at it, use ‘instant-runoff’ voting; rank your top, say, three choices of the draftee candidates, and there’ll be no need for a wasteful runoff election.
Lobbying would be done only on an open blog-style board, and “crazy” ideas that start making sense would bubble to the top.
The last thing is to have humans, IN PUBLIC, count the votes. A corporate computer, in secret, doing the job - that’s right out of Uncle Joe Stalin’s book; “It doesn’t matter who votes, what matters is who Counts the votes!” [rant off]
We’re almost where we could do a Draft Lottery for all legislative, judiciary, and executive offices; anybody who wanted the job would not be qualified (and I like the <$100k requirement - adjusted for inflation), but a random (truly random, not like the early Vietnam-era) lottery would pick the candidates, who would post a resume. Period. NO campaigns. NO campaign money.
While we’re at it, use ‘instant-runoff’ voting; rank your top, say, three choices of the draftee candidates, and there’ll be no need for a wasteful runoff election.
Lobbying would be done only on an open blog-style board, and “crazy” ideas that start making sense would bubble to the top.
The last thing is to have humans, IN PUBLIC, count the votes. A corporate computer, in secret, doing the job - that’s right out of Uncle Joe Stalin’s book; “It doesn’t matter who votes, what matters is who Counts the votes!” [rant off]