Re:On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]
by Atreiden on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:02AM
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I think this take highlights one of the core problems our democracy faces - winning elections and governing effectively are entirely different skill sets. These things may even be, in part, antithetical.
Re:On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]
by fc417fc802 on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:44AM
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I merely intended it as a reasonably general proxy for relevant experience whose ruleset would be difficult to weaponize. I agree that in theory there almost certainly must be better methods than elections by which to select legislators, leaders, and other official positions. However I'm not aware of any in practice, particularly when the inevitability of bad faith attempts to abuse the system are taken into account.
The downside is encouraging career politicians, but the upside is that if you can't win increasingly high stakes elections over a period of 10 years or so then you probably have no business being the president of a country this size.