Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC's former chief of staff, thinks the Democrats need a bolder vision.
  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    101·
    2 days ago

    Fuck yes, let’s go with it!

    • Politician age range 30-50
    • Background check
    • Minimum Education Requirements
    • Understands science (including biology) and technology thoroughly at minimum high school level
    • 200 hours of community service working with the poor
    • 200 hours of community service working with the elderly
    • 200 hours of community service working with immigrants
    • Debt, Funding and Corporate Alliance check
    • Blocked from stock market trades along with immediate family
    • No bribes
    • No Lobbying
    • No ex C-STAFF for major companies.
    • Paid enough to be single yacht and a summer home kind of rich.

    What else we need in here or what have I gone wrong on?

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            I love the concept, I think that’s going to be kind of hard to write into law.

            Maybe instead we could find some way where they are beholden to their constituents?

            I guess part of the problem with that is misinformation. We need something to watch over, and stamp out propaganda, But how do you do that without making a tool so powerful that it could be used for evil, or more succinctly, how could you set up guardrails to keep it from being evil.