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If there is anything I am sure about it is that the children of politicians are largely useless.
Statistically it is a far superior choice to literally pick a random person off the street.
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2025
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Angus King III? Oh, the person whose father voted to kill tens of millions of people by voting to take away their healthcare? Automatic NOPE!
Politics was never supposed to be a nepotist endeavor.
John Quincy Adams agrees.
So does G W Bush.
I propose we don't vote for legacy politicians. Go live in the world your parents chose for all of us.
Politics and Hollywood. The nepo tradition being kept alive. We need change, not the entrenched establishment of old people telling their young people how to game the system.
This is why you need mail in voting. You get a pamphlet of their views and time to really look at the candidates.
Mail in, ranked, no electoral college, no districts.
If you’re going to have 2 chambers of parliament, you may as well have one be elected via districts (with ranked choice) and the other be proportional representation
Oh boy, our own House of Lords!
It still blows my mind that that exists in the modern era.
American politics has always had a "legacy" problem, among other things.
Why Sanders didn't endorse his brother when he ran for office. Sanders hates nepotism. Fucking Hollywood is full of it. We don't need it in our politics.
It will be easy to vote against them if the names are recognizable
They want us to literally vote in monarchy?
We already have been.
Let's just "jury duty" all of our government. Shit couldn't be worse.
I like the idea of someone getting a card in the mail saying "youve been selected for senate duty" and them groaning and having to call their boss to tell them they cant come in on time next Wednesday because they have to vote on whether or not KOSA should pass
Have you met average Americans? Fuck that.
Filter by GPA first then.
As long as we're dreaming, we can dream about an education system that turns out functional adults.
People are trying to make family dynasties.
They know a good grift when they see it.
Fuck that mess, we need new blood. Same family, same bullshit
We need a constitutional amendment forbidding members of one's immediate family from running for office above a certain level. Spouses, children, and siblings are all right out. Exactly where the cutoff is is open to discussion, but presidents and members of congress should be forbidden from trading on their family name for elected office.
Say what, say what?