It's
People!
Here's
my idea for fixing our broken presidential election system:
Get rid of it.
It's clear that the general public is almost completely unable
to discern fact from fiction especially in a media landscape
where
the six
CEOs who own everything we see and hear decide what we should,
well, see and hear.
So how about instead of elections we begin teaching
college courses in governance, a profession that should require
no less a rigorous
education process than those of law or medicine. It would be,
at minimum a four-year course in world and American history,
economics, mathematics, law, physical science, and
improv comedy.
Graduates
could apply for any government job but vying
for the Presidency should require at least one term as a Congressman,
Senator, or Governor. The final decision of
who becomes the top Chief Executive would be a decision made
by his
or her
peers, but only those who graduated at the top of their classes.
This would prevent any "stuffing of the ballot boxes" by lesser
grads.
And with free higher education this could mean
literally anyone could be president, not just the
very rich.
While I'm fantasizing about something that will
never happen I would also like a pony.
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Technical Note: The lad in the cartoon above is
not holding a soylent green MRE, he's
holding a copy of the book "Soylent Green".
=Lefty=
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