• yesman@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    hereditary lawmaker

    It’s pretty bad when an American looks at your government and thinks, damn that’s backward AF.

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      Yes - but it is meant to be deliberately backwards as a check and a balance. The idea is that if every law was made and passed by the currently elected politicians only then there’d be a flood of kneejerk reactionary populist laws only. The idea is to have some people with an eye to the bigger picture…