Random selection isn’t great. There’s a much greater chance of seating someone with zero life experience or insane ideas or maybe just illiterate. Unless you start excluding people for various reasons, then you’re basically back where we already are.
Even if a selection is statistically average, you still get the tyranny of the majority.
Nothing wrong with a couple of dummies in there. It might take 1,000 years before someone’s dumb as Margarine Taylor Green blesses the halls. It will motivate the public to keep the public educated and informed
There’s a much greater chance of seating someone with zero life experience or insane ideas or maybe just illiterate.
That’s fine. And there definitely will be some of them in this Senate. But they will only be 1 vote out of 1000.
As long as the majority of people in the country have life experience, sane ideas, and can read, it will be fine. And even the inexperienced, insane illiterates out there will get their proportional representation.
(Though I would be open to having eligibility requirements beyond only citizenship – such as being at least 18 years old, not currently incarcerated, and having a high school or equivalent education.)
What about the extremely demotivated? It sounds like a good system but then the idea of being selected myself occurs to me and like, I’d rather die than have to do that job. People suck, and 1000 is a lot of people.
Nice thoroughly fleshed out idea though, youve obviously put a lot of thought into that. Props.
A) To do the right thing, you report for Senate duty as required, but then request that your mentor Senator put it up for a vote to excuse you from service, along with an explanation/sob story of why you really don’t want to be a Senator. If 66% of other Senators agree that you shouldn’t be forced to, then you don’t have to.
or,
B) Just ignore it and potentially face legal consequences like steep fines or judgements requiring community service hours.
But … yeah. The people who don’t want to be in government are the exact sort who should be in government, so it shouldn’t be an easy thing to get out of.
(Also … serving in the Senate doesn’t necessarily have to be that onerous. The Senate can vote to set their own hours and meeting times, after all, and can always vote to take a recess whenever they want. Perhaps most of it could be done remotely, better allowing you to continue your life/career outside of it.)
Random selection isn’t great. There’s a much greater chance of seating someone with zero life experience or insane ideas or maybe just illiterate. Unless you start excluding people for various reasons, then you’re basically back where we already are.
Even if a selection is statistically average, you still get the tyranny of the majority.
Nothing wrong with a couple of dummies in there. It might take 1,000 years before someone’s dumb as Margarine Taylor Green blesses the halls. It will motivate the public to keep the public educated and informed
That’s fine. And there definitely will be some of them in this Senate. But they will only be 1 vote out of 1000.
As long as the majority of people in the country have life experience, sane ideas, and can read, it will be fine. And even the inexperienced, insane illiterates out there will get their proportional representation.
(Though I would be open to having eligibility requirements beyond only citizenship – such as being at least 18 years old, not currently incarcerated, and having a high school or equivalent education.)
What about the extremely demotivated? It sounds like a good system but then the idea of being selected myself occurs to me and like, I’d rather die than have to do that job. People suck, and 1000 is a lot of people.
Nice thoroughly fleshed out idea though, youve obviously put a lot of thought into that. Props.
A) To do the right thing, you report for Senate duty as required, but then request that your mentor Senator put it up for a vote to excuse you from service, along with an explanation/sob story of why you really don’t want to be a Senator. If 66% of other Senators agree that you shouldn’t be forced to, then you don’t have to.
or,
B) Just ignore it and potentially face legal consequences like steep fines or judgements requiring community service hours.
But … yeah. The people who don’t want to be in government are the exact sort who should be in government, so it shouldn’t be an easy thing to get out of.
(Also … serving in the Senate doesn’t necessarily have to be that onerous. The Senate can vote to set their own hours and meeting times, after all, and can always vote to take a recess whenever they want. Perhaps most of it could be done remotely, better allowing you to continue your life/career outside of it.)