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[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it? (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Competency tests before you can appear on a ballot, with a commission that reviews the requirements to prevent the exclusion of minorities.

I can see corruption in this very easily. We already have commissions that review the requirements to prevent the exclusion of minorities when it comes to voter registration but they still fail to actually do their job.

All financial information must be disclosed by anyone with power over others.

All parents must now disclose all financial information.

Somehow replace shares with cooperatives and employee ownership.

I agree with this but it will be hard to keep the economy stood up. How would you encourage people to start a new business and not just become an owner of a megacorp?

No elected judges, with stringent training and yearly bias testing. Like a postdoc in judicial impartiality.

Same with sheriffs. No elected police. Police should be a career, like a civil engineer. To be promoted, people must pass ever more strict ethics courses.

If they aren't elected, then how are they picked? Who sets the requirements for those picked? This is exactly how we end up with all-white police forces, judges, and civil engineers pushing minorities to the inner city.

Any person who is a position of trust and power who then acts contrary to the ethics of their role can never be elected. Or have power over anyone again.

I can see this going wrong in all sorts of ways. Especially since "power over anyone" includes being a parent to children. You are now taking children away from their parents. Parents who can easily get accused of working against their ethics but in reality never did.

Children must be free of religion until they are 25.

Children must not be mutilated by their parents religion.

This seems the most silly. It turns religion into a banned book. You essentially are doing the exact thing that right-wing school districts are doing to minorities by banning books. The solution isn't to ban children from knowledge, it's to give them a fully informed choice. Religion exists for a lot of reasons, some of them good. Although I am not religious, at most I am Taoist and not being able to share the way of Taoist life with my children would be insane.

National healthcare.

Yes, please!

USA focused: each state gets one senator, plus one per 2 million residents.

Hmm, this just turns the Senate into the House.