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In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle (theintercept.com)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (10 children)

How can we fix our political system so it no longer attracts the worst among us?

[–] DeathbringerThoctar 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Make the job a chore. Treat it like jury duty. That way it's not a career choice, it's a genuine civic contribution.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah! Make them all live in the Big Brother house. Get it all on tape and then hire a couple reality TV directors to CSPAN.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Omg MTVs real world only it’s congress. I’d pay to watch that!

But they all should wear nascar or ski racing style jackets where all the sponsors logos are listed from big to small based on how much money they’re being paid to shill for.

This feels one step closer to idiocracy…

[–] homesweethomeMrL 3 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure that was an original Star Trek episode

[–] something_random_tho 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You’re describing the original Athenian democratic system, Sortition. People were randomly selected for government, and as a result policies were truly representative of what people wanted. It was effective.

It was tried later in Venice and Florence, and it failed because it only selected from nobles, not everyone.

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