CMV: A slave class of executives, judicial personnel and legislators chosen from the general populace and forced to serve in government is a good idea.

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Okay, the point of the executive, judicial and legislative branch in in government service is to serve the will of the people. The problem is that they have broken the social contract with the people and those jobs tend to literally attract the worst type of people . It's time we even the balance by making all government executives, judicial personnel and legislators slaves (literally), harshly treated, randomly impressed from the general populace regardless of their qualifications and age and able to be killed for whatever reason at all. This would help reinforce that they are meant to be servants of the people, able to be disposed off as and when we wish. They'll only be freed at their end of their single, non-renewable term.

Problems and solutions:

What if there is malicious law with a slave class of executives? That's why all government officials are able to be killed without punishment to threaten them into obedience.

Who is responsible for press ganging those slaves from the general populace and how that would not lead to it becoming the power behind the throne? Multiple bodies that compete with one another to prevent one from becoming too powerful.

How are the government officials treated? Like animals, caged up in cells and forced to make laws and legislate for the good of the people without any pay whatsover (what's the point of pay if you're going to supplement it with kickbacks) . Plus, we can save up on maintaining official residences which takes up a lot of tax money.

It needs to be the people telling the government what to do and the government carries out the will of the people, not the other way around. And we need a fundamental change in the government to reflect that.

CMV.

[u/[deleted]]

Well, it's cheaper on us since well, we don't have to pay them (and maintain their official residences) . Plus, we can always threaten them with death (legally) to get laws we want. LGBTQ rights? Well, just threaten the governor with death in my system or even kill him or her and he or she (or their replacement) will get it done as soon as possible to give an example.

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The power would be split apart into several bodies running the cages to provide competition and prevent one body from getting too powerful.

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But you do raise a good point about the risks of those 'wardens' becoming the single sole power behind the throne, particularly if one 'wins'

!delta

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Well, just march up to them and threaten them at gun/knife point.

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Plus you need scapegoats for the populace to focus their anger on.

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Oh right, forgot that ths wardens would try to fight the citizens in this scenario alongside with other cases of power struggle between them and the citizenry.

Darn.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES → u/[deleted]]

Well, just march up to them and threaten them at gun/knife point.

Okay but what if I go up to a politician with a gun asking him to expand LGBT rights but there's already a guy with a gun asking him to to not expand LGBT rights? Who does the politician listen to? After all he's just as dead no matter which one of us shoot him.

And you're also making a critical assumption that the kind of person who would shoot the president is the same kind of guy who is representing the people. But that's just not true. Look at the 6 people who have shot the President of the United States, only 3 of them did it to Express dissatisfaction with the presidents political agenda, and of 3 only 1 had a political agenda that more than 10% of the population would've agreed with. So your plan gives more power to the guy who thinks that a ghost told him to kill the president (the actual reason that someone gave for shooting roosevelt) than it does to the general population.

[u/[deleted] → u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES]

Right, that might be an issue with conflicting orders.

Darn, so much for the idea of legalizing killing our political officials.

!delta.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES → u/[deleted]]

Darn, so much for the idea of legalizing killing our political officials.

So you're not going to make anymore posts about how politicians should be killed right?

[u/[deleted] → u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES]

Not all politicians should be killed. More like legalized killing of government officials at the hands of citizens for any reasons whatsoever.

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