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RchHomieQuanChi
08/07/21 1:36:35 PM
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To hold elected officials accountable?

Let's say we vote somebody into office that happens to be a not-so-great elected official. How would people be able to get them out of office in ways that can't be subverted by party majority?

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s0nicfan
08/07/21 1:38:58 PM
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Voting for someone else in the next election.

"But... But they're not MY party!"

Who cares. Pick someone else.

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RchHomieQuanChi
08/07/21 2:22:35 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Voting for someone else in the next election.

"But... But they're not MY party!"

Who cares. Pick someone else.

That's not the same as accountability.

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Kaiganeer
08/07/21 2:23:38 PM
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a guillotine
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Questionmarktarius
08/07/21 2:54:17 PM
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Term limits.
...a Balanced Budget amendment would also severely limit the ability to cause bullshittery.
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sabrestorm
08/07/21 2:55:42 PM
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There are already rules in place
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teep_
08/07/21 2:55:53 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Term limits.
...a Balanced Budget amendment would also severely limit the ability to cause bullshittery.

I don't think the black zero would work in the US. Too much ingrained wastage in your system, from what I can tell
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BilalPowell
08/07/21 2:57:37 PM
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Just treat elected officials the same as anyone else. Give them a normal person trial instead of letting Congress decide.

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Questionmarktarius
08/07/21 3:00:39 PM
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teep_ posted...
Too much ingrained wastage in your system, from what I can tell
Lack of accounting is one of the primary causes of a lack of accountability.
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monkmith
08/07/21 3:02:59 PM
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  • increase the house to better reflect the actual population of the country.
  • implement ranked voting to allow for a system not dominated by two political parties.



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Questionmarktarius
08/07/21 3:21:34 PM
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monkmith posted...
* increase the house to better reflect the actual population of the country.
Should be somewhere around eleven thousand.

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