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Yes, and we don't treat paternalistic megalomania in this nation, we hold elections for it. The first action of candidates for office under our present system is to seek paternalistic power over others.
I wish we had a peer based model, not an emperor wannabee sweepstakes run by children who want to be selective adults. We could do that with the Buckley Solution; we'd pick our pool of candidates for honorable state plumbers the same way we pick our pool of life-or-death decision jurors, by random selection from the phone book, voter or motor registration roles. Then we'd vet the willing and able, and throw our usual circus. We'd just remove that systemic bias from the pool selection.
Another utopia not going to happen; so what elevated the current clownfest as practical reality, other than caving in to some of the worst defects in mankind?
regards,
Fred
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