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think of the good we could do if our political leaders were interested in doing good
libertarians are mad at me for this but 1) you will never make a political impact without a compelling vision for the future 2) losing is part of the libertarian identity, which is why i'm no longer interested in advice from libertarians, and 3) roads are good, actually
This pains me daily at this point
What do you think about removing reelection and making the periods 5-7 years instead? Feels like reelection promotes thinking short term (getting votes), rather than working for the long term (even if to be remembered as someone who did good in history).
...or they were simply interested in serving the people rather than ruling over them...
politicians convinced that they were doing good also took us to the moon and split the atom
^ incentivized to do good, FTFY. The power of incentives dominates any kind of intrinsic benevolent motivations.
Or even better we assume that men are not angels and we pit ambition against ambition as described in federalist 51
We had a system for this and a step towards restoring it would be creating a Senate that is appointed by members of their own state's legislature rather than direct elections.
They could do us a solid by not getting in the way.
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