• DJDarren
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    13 hours ago

    In the wise words of Billy Connolly,

    The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.

    • seth@lemmy.world
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      5 minutes ago

      It’s true for leaders in general. The best leaders I’ve had were people who didn’t want to be, and each person I’ve seen focus on “leadership skills” and trying to climb a corporate or other power ladder has been abysmal at it.

    • OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      I would like to see a minority of the house representation of elected people from individual regions with term limits, with a majority of the house being regular people randomly selected to serve for a defined amount of time.