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Originally Posted by simmer2
Either way, politics tend to attract not the top calibre of people, which is unfortunate.
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It's basically a popularity contest. On surface level it's a terrible concept for bringing in the best and brightest. And it has been proven time and time again that many, many people are not qualified or should not be making decisions that affect the rest of us.
I've heard conservatives say that the government should be run like a business. If that's true, then we should be hiring the most qualified candidate, not the most popular one. As a business owner, I wouldn't hire someone just because of the color of shirt their wearing.
Yes I know I'm slagging democracy, but really we should be moving towards machine learning being fed huge samples of data that can manage our decision-making for us, and then submitted to a panel of the best and brightest of leaders, academics, and community representatives to review.
Perhaps politics can be used as a theatre style for entertaining tourists. Have a mock legislature and debate from the left and right. People should be able to laugh at this process in a non-binding manner.