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Should an Office of Constitutional Compliance be created int he US?
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(4 hours ago)UltraBudgie Wrote: maybe lord acton had it backward when he said power corrupts and it is in fact that the drive for power beyond the interpersonal stems from corruption and all systems of power concentration like large governments where people wield authority over those they don't have to make eye contact with are doomed to subversion corruption rigging and such as you mention. power doesn't corrupt, corruption empowers. that sounds cynical. but it may be the case in fact and history sure seems to indicate it because even the best systems slide toward that end as the good intentions generationally fade and are worked around by the weasels who when we really look at them are more bellwhethers of the weaslyness nascent in all of us even if we dont want to admit it or be as brazen about it. and perhaps that is why systems that break that power aggregation at the lowest level before it can metastize are so hated by those who have leaned in to the game of political subversion. i am thinking of things like jury nullification and sortition.

Doesn't it make stand to reason that to select administrators and leaders by sortition, or giving everyone (both parties) an equal chance, that it is likely to result in less corruption because there will be opposing ideas or challenges that can be debated, and where everyone is kept in check for all of the people, so to speak? Selecting political administrators of the same ilk will result only in 'yes' men and women who won't have the desire of freedom of expression or alternate visions for the all of the people.
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RE: Should an Office of Constitutional Compliance be created int he US? - by quintessentone - 4 hours ago


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