Nancy Pelosi Gets a Surprising New Primary Challenger - eviltoast
Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC's former chief of staff, thinks the Democrats need a bolder vision.
  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    151·
    1 day ago

    Fuck yes, let’s go with it!

    • Politician age range 30-50
    • Background check
    • Minimum Education Requirements
    • Understands science (including biology) and technology thoroughly at minimum high school level
    • 200 hours of community service working with the poor
    • 200 hours of community service working with the elderly
    • 200 hours of community service working with immigrants
    • Debt, Funding and Corporate Alliance check
    • Blocked from stock market trades along with immediate family
    • No bribes
    • No Lobbying
    • No ex C-STAFF for major companies.
    • Paid enough to be single yacht and a summer home kind of rich.

    What else we need in here or what have I gone wrong on?

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Will all these hours of community service be paid or are we restricting public office to those who can afford to work for free?

    • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      I have no issue with politicians up to age 65, if we want to capture the breadth of their experience. After 65 though, they’re out. Cognitive decline is a sharp dropoff, and we want politicians who are a going concern for the decisions they make.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        Yeah less for cognitive decline, I kind of want to see more churn on bodies in chairs. Let en go out and earn the rest of their fortunes before retirement.

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        10 hours ago

        It’s probably easier to make it so their self interest is best served by serving the people, by doing something along the lines of tying their pay to the median pay of their constituents.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            16 hours ago

            I love the concept, I think that’s going to be kind of hard to write into law.

            Maybe instead we could find some way where they are beholden to their constituents?

            I guess part of the problem with that is misinformation. We need something to watch over, and stamp out propaganda, But how do you do that without making a tool so powerful that it could be used for evil, or more succinctly, how could you set up guardrails to keep it from being evil.

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
      15·
      11 hours ago

      Let’s throw in a lifelike animatronic AOC fuck doll, while we’re mixing ridiculous fantasy with our politics