Subj : Re: US new favourite sport, school shootings
To   : Randall Schad
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Tue Sep 10 2024 14:41:12

 RS> The system we use to put people in those seats, however... That demands a
 RS> complete overhaul. I kind of like the lottery idea with a one term limit.
 RS> Something akin to voluntary jury duty. (Hey, it can't be any worse than
 RS> the present state.)

I agree that it needs an overhaul. A lottery system with a single term sounds better than what we have now. Now, committee chairs make the recruitment decisions, and that's bad because 1) they make bad decisions, and 2) there's some sort of elite alliance that gets candidate names on the recruiters' desks. Lastly, 3) primaries are rare. We haven't had one (for US Rep) in my region for a very long time. Not the Republicans nor the Democrats.

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