Before becoming a politician, one should complete a mandatory 1.5 years of social service, divided into three-month periods:
— in nursing care
— in a daycare center
— in a school
— in a medium-sized company
— in retail
— on a farm
All unpaid and voluntary, of course.
Can they bring their photographers, biographer, and media team? 🤪
@isol @Strandjunker also they will learm more hate to people.
You can't teach empathy.
You can learn, yes, but teach - impossible.
An interesting idea, but it would limit candidates to only the wealthy class, or those the wealthy class hire.
@EthicalProfessor @Strandjunker
Yeah, unpaid labor gives an advantage to the wealthy. From what I gather, it's the main reason for unpaid internships: it's rare that anyone else can afford to work for free.
@Strandjunker Nice range.
Did you come up with that yourself?
the story goes that Socrates had made a claim that all politicians be required to study philosophy. A student then asked, "So why don't you go into public office?" whereupon Socrates is said to have replied, "Because I don't know anything about politics."
@transfemmegabriellamontez @Strandjunker
I don't think they do the actual farm work though
And a pre-emptive one year in jail - just to save time afterwards.
@Strandjunker
Instead of unpaid, I think a fairer thing would be allowing the standard paycheck of their position, but they are only allowed to live of off that paycheck. Meaning they will need to move into whatever apartment they can afford with that paycheck and will not be allowed to use any of their possessions during that time. Of course, they may request an exemption for up to 30 items, each of which is under $100 just so they have clothes and whatnot.
But yeah, forcing politicians to live like normal people is definitely something that should be done.
If there wasn’t so much money in fucking politics, thanks to billionaires and they are pet Supreme Court member William Powell Junior. You could have people like that running for office. Sometimes they do. The grovelling for money filters out people deliberately.
they are mostly sociopaths.. it wouldn't mean anything to them. Just one more box to check off while climbing the ladder of power.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @Strandjunker
Might be uncomfortable enough to at least make the worst of them veer off the political path. (This is not to say they wouldn't veer into something more dangerous for society, but it might at least slow them down?)
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @Strandjunker
Yeah, well, a cavy can dream....
True dat..
You know ultimately it's the voters who vote them in to power.. over and over again. I'de rather start my troubleshooting there. Look at how close the election was. He won by 1.5% FFS, but talks like he has some broad mandate granted to him by the majority of the population. Again, they believe their own lies, and lying comes naturally to them.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @Strandjunker
Yeah, well, there's a reason the right has been systematically destroying public education for the last 40-50 years....
They are such good liars because they actually believe their own bullshit..
That's hard to counteract externally. To counteract that habit of mind internally within them, forget it.. just forget it.
Imagine anything slowing down a sociopath of her stature.. I can't imagine it.
this is the way
Too short.
5 years, and they also need time in the lowest economic areas of the country - state - city.
And they still need term limits.
@Strandjunker
And upon becoming a politician, each one should be immediately beheaded.
There ARE NO good politicians. Professional liars and servants of the oligarchs, every last one of them.
@Strandjunker I would also argue for a few others like maintenance and janitorial work.
Oh, and you only get the most basic healthcare available
Can we also please require them to pass the basic exam that immigrants are required to take to gain their citizenship?
Yeah, not sure I'd want a fucking huge chunk of them anywhere near a school tbh.
A 6 - 12 month stint on a minimum wage, living in a low-income area, and a contract signed to say they can't cop out earlier and still be allowed to run, should take care of most of them tbh.
We had a politician a cpl of decades ago attempt to 'survive' on a benefit in a grandiose attempt to 'show' us how we exaggerate the hardships some people lived under.
She lasted a cpl of weeks, and then her kid got sick. Aaannnnd that was the end of that!
Oddly enough, she didn't get voted back in. 😉 😎
Unpaid for the rich.
But paid for working class people. Otherwise they just couldn’t enter politics.
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