I think people should be selected to govern by lottery from an extensive pool of those who have:

1. indicated they are willing to serve in governmental capacity, and

2. meet the necessary age and educational/etc requirements to do so.

At one fell swoop you have eliminated party politics (an inherently corrupt and divisive system which lies and cheats its way into power by any means possible). You have also eliminated idiotic, dishonest political campaigns and the expenses associated therewith.

I suspect that the people who ended up with the job of governing under the lottery system would be FAR more constructive in their attitude toward each other and would actually do a considerably better job of governing than what is presently occuring!

And I am dead serious about that. Political parties are a VERY bad idea...whether there's one, two, or five or ten of them. They serve not the public, but themselves. They are a self-aggrandizing, self-perpetuating power structure resembling a "gang" (in the criminal sense of that word).

- LH