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Originally Posted by fash
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Interesting, but does this do anything besides save you some time in a democratic government? When they want more gibs, they'll burn down cities. When they want to vote, they'll martyr for publicity and plant bombs.
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No it just removes the power of bureaucrats to grant favors. Its just a thought I mull over from time to time. I just find it kind of self defeating that we have these "citizen" leaders. No term limits combined with the "right" to pursue your own interest as a politician is kind of bullshit. Civil service/politicians should have to enter into a system they can not rig or profit from. This would draw only those with a genuine interest in efficient and just operation of that system toward it to begin with. In Plato's version children are tested to see if they fit into this class and are then raised by a family belonging to that class so as to instill those values.
If we have to use democratic methods the way you avoid "gibs" and riots is you use a timocratic method to decide voter eligibility. Then you create a way for those who desire to do so to progress into the timocracy based on some system of merit. Heinlein the sci-fi author and libertarian had proposed limiting citizenship and its rights to only those who served in the military. So something along those lines could be adopted.