[little jeremiah]

I’m at the point where I think that randomly picking out citizens from a phone book would result in better public officials. I remember when they were called “public servants” - I was about to use that phrase and realized how far we’ve fallen...

Or heck, even pulling “Will Work For Food” bums off the street.

[Cyber Liberty]

I’m at the point where I think that randomly picking out citizens from a phone book would result in better public officials.

Google "representation by lot." William F Buckley once proposed he'd rather be represented by the first batch of people in a telephone book than by the faculty of Harvard.

Quote here.

[manc]

my oldest son aged 14 now well he would be a better staunch republican, actually he gave a speech to a history club and was told he should think about running once he get solder as he would do better than what we have and he knows more about the issues and the constitution than most we have running or leading right now