How's it harsh? You get a whole free chance. I'm of the opinion that wanting to run for office is one of the easiest metrics by which to disqualify you from office.
And the truly great statemen and leaders have always had their skin in the game.
I'd also be comfortable with the notion of seizing your assets upon gaining public office.
So you better be serious about it if you've gotten rejected once and still want to try again. And none of this getting elected, losing, winning, losing again bullshit. Voter fatigue shouldn't be your ticket to office.
Bills should be the same way, any bill or provision that fails twice cannot be brought for 20 years.
I started at one loss should be execution, this is my compromise version.
ETA: Politicians aren't human to begin with. Career politicians are demonic spawn.
You don't have any other measure of getting people into politics besides an election. It also means executing anyone who "loses" an election due to corruption.
Correct. You've identified the paradox of power, and therefore the reason for my goal of making it largely unattractive to anybody who doesn't already have in built popular support.
Granted I also would take a cleaver to universal suffrage and most direct elections regardless
That's not what you did. You made popular support utterly irrelevant because you could lose an election.
If anything you've enshrined that what will happen is that only people who will corrupt the system and become 1 party states will be in power. Dissent will have to lead to executions because it's too dangerous to ever run against anyone at all. Instead, what you will get is people who run sham campaigns against no one.
That's a little harsh. That would only work in an already perfect system.
How's it harsh? You get a whole free chance. I'm of the opinion that wanting to run for office is one of the easiest metrics by which to disqualify you from office.
And the truly great statemen and leaders have always had their skin in the game.
I'd also be comfortable with the notion of seizing your assets upon gaining public office.
So you better be serious about it if you've gotten rejected once and still want to try again. And none of this getting elected, losing, winning, losing again bullshit. Voter fatigue shouldn't be your ticket to office.
Bills should be the same way, any bill or provision that fails twice cannot be brought for 20 years.
I started at one loss should be execution, this is my compromise version.
ETA: Politicians aren't human to begin with. Career politicians are demonic spawn.
You don't have any other measure of getting people into politics besides an election. It also means executing anyone who "loses" an election due to corruption.
Correct. You've identified the paradox of power, and therefore the reason for my goal of making it largely unattractive to anybody who doesn't already have in built popular support.
Granted I also would take a cleaver to universal suffrage and most direct elections regardless
That's not what you did. You made popular support utterly irrelevant because you could lose an election.
If anything you've enshrined that what will happen is that only people who will corrupt the system and become 1 party states will be in power. Dissent will have to lead to executions because it's too dangerous to ever run against anyone at all. Instead, what you will get is people who run sham campaigns against no one.