Comments on: 10% Less Democracy

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:23:37 +0000

“Jones recommends six-year terms for the House and more autonomous agencies like the Fed.”

Congratulations, Mr. Jones, you are a leading contender for the 2015 Mencius Moldbug award, for doing an outstanding job of identifying a real problem, and then coming up with an utterly inadequate or unworkable solution!

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:12:13 +0000

With an incumbency rate greater than 90%, I think House members already have six year terms, if not more.

By: Dan Kurt

Dan Kurt — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:11:15 +0000

Democracies self destruct. Fiddling with the machinery is just moving the deck chairs on the Titanic after it hit the berg.

By: Letters in a Box

Letters in a Box — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 19:20:28 +0000

The problem is that over time, the system becomes more and more gamed as it is more and more understood. There should be an injection of randomness somehow in order to make it somewhat unpredictable.

There should be constitutionally mandated lotteries inserted into the system somewhere, somehow, at some random times. I’m not enough of a wonk to know where, or how, but I can picture maybe a random 6 year term for some office holders, or having jury members (that have not been disqualified) randomly selected as the winners of random elections, or having random laws immediately invalidated.