Then, we can finally give up and just draft our representatives. Two months before it's time for new politicians to take over, they would draw names, and do 6am door-kicking raids to abduct the "candidates" and take them to D.C. to represent us.
Then, we can finally give up and just draft our representatives. Two months before it's time for new politicians to take over, they would draw names, and do 6am door-kicking raids to abduct the "candidates" and take them to D.C. to represent us.
This is called sortition. It's basically what we do to select jurors already. Athens did this to select their officials (though people had to opt in to be selectable) and they thought it was obviously better than elections.
Aren't we already there? The current US president held his first 2020 campaign rally on February 18 2017, less than a month after his inauguration:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/campaign-over...
Most Americans are indifferent or hostile to their representatives, when they even know who they are.