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hankor posted:Guys, chill out! Pretty much ignoring 50% of the population is not a big thing, it's the same as not having plumbers and carpenters on your list of candidates. I though the professional civil service did most of the actual bill writing and complicated stuff. The politician has to *understand* the bill sufficiently to know if it represents his electorates interests, but even then they will rely on professional advisors appropriate to each particular bill. With bills on things as varied as copyright law, farming and fisheries management, criminal law, welfare, medical licensing etc., NO amount of schooling or life experience can make you expert enough to vote in an informed fashion in every single area without significant backup. I would rather see politicians from a wide variety of educational backgrounds. Political sciences and economics are important, but the hard sciences are sorely underrepresented in a day and age where many significant political decisions should be more heavily informed by science. Evidence based politics trumps ideology based politics.
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