Almost every country in the world has an expensive national body of elected public representatives. Whether it is called the Congress, Dail, parliament, Bundestag, or Riksdag, the process is the same: people elect the public representatives for their region, they get together in a big building somewhere and they get busy talking and legislating. This system of public representation has several well known weaknesses, such as the potential for over representation by wealthy private interests via lobbying, funding, and corruption. I heard arguments before that this is the price of democracy, but I will not discuss this contentious point here. One 'point of failure' that I haven't seen discussed before is the unsuitability of these politicians to decide laws that will be exploited by professional lawyers and accountants (how many politicians do you know who have a law or financial background?). People tend to vote for the politician that secured funding for the local schoo
It's a confusing world out there