Quote (inkanddagger @ Feb 2 2018 05:25pm)
A well-functioning bureaucracy is far more important than the sum of legislators, executives, and justices. But, the politicization of the technocratic class is inevitable when you live in a system where the powerful exploit government for their own gains, rather than for any real social benefit. Democracy should be reserved to electing technocrats selected by an algorithm into a candidate pool. Our founders solved this problem through a particular type republicanism which relied on the educated to lead society. By and large, the educated were wealthy white landowning men. Unfortunately, as society and technology have progressed, we've barely moved beyond that base, 18th century method of selecting our candidate pool. The criteria are no longer valid. Wealth and power are no longer an indication of being informed, or a metric by which we should be selecting our political class.
There is nothing wrong with the method we use to elect our politicians.
As long as the legislators, executives, and justices, are playing by the rules, the system works just fine.
Your... "electing technocrats selected by an algorithm into a candidate pool" is not only highly unfair to non technocratic citizens, but it won't work.
In the 18th century it was land owners, now it's business owners...same difference. This is a capitalist country, the money people, with "checks and balances", have to lead.
If they can't lead or influence which leaders are chosen, they will go somewhere else to do business.
This memo is all about the people in the system of "checks and balances" NOT playing by the rules. When this happens... we DO have a serious problem.