• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    6 hours ago

    It sounds good, but ends up hurting only the senators who aren’t filthy rich.

    Doing a Papal conclave would force them to come to a fair agreement because the ones taking bribes would have to suffer too.

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      That‘s going to be younger democrats. They‘re more likely to be independent women or minorities that probably won‘t have the money or financial backing the typical white male republican will have.

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        Yeah, capitalism has wholly captured and groomed the worst of the political class to the state and federal level, and everyone’s still acting like the average politician is just some ineffective idealist, instead of a white collar criminal positioned because they were corrupt.

        It’s like how people still default to “won’t someone think of the small businesses and competition” when regulations are mentioned. Everyone still acts like it’s the 50’s and we still have mom & pop style small businesses, when capitalism has already destroyed the lions share of small or family owned businesses, and achieved a functional-monopoly in every major industry.

        The last century of corporate propaganda was a roaring success.

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      If we did this for everything, it would also be a defecto requirement to be fairly young.

      Of course limiting our repsentation to only the able bodied is inherently undemocratic, but goddamn I am tired of these octogenarians deciding policy they don’t understand or have to live with.