#politicians

What if there was a way to effectively eliminate the incentive for political violence while also allowing a dedicated enough individual to remove a potentially totalitarian politician from office? One approach would be to have legal "assassinations."

Similar to an actual assassination, a citizen would be trading their freedom for a politician's career. However, this would not require killing them. The system I propose would work like this:

1. Any US citizen between ages of 18 and 40 can file to "assassinate" a politician's career.

2. They must prove they are in good health with a decently long life expectancy.

3. The citizen goes to prison for the rest of their life, and the politician is barred from holding office forever. If they are currently in office, they are replaced with the next person in line from their party.

This would ideally be used in a parliamentary democracy, where citizens vote for parties who then appoint politicians from a pre-published list. So an "assassination" wouldn't shift power from one party to another, but if a politician looked like they were about to make a grab for totalitarian power, it could stop them.

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