| ▲ | triceratops 13 hours ago | |
> Who does the selection? Of what? > Who approves the applications? What's to "approve"? > Who ensures the process is open? Put it on a website and in the local paper. Applicants' names, their exam scores, their law school transcripts. > It always comes down to winners of elections Sure somewhere in the chain, at the end, there's an elected official. That's democracy. But elected officials can be required by law to use meritocratic selection criteria to appoint people. Many countries used or still use exams to hire bureaucrats. It's a very old concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service_entrance_examina... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination > The USA isn’t a technocracy or meritocracy, for better or worse. That's fine but a different argument from "it can't be done". | ||
| ▲ | diskzero 13 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Ok. So we just need enlightened legislatures to enact these processes into law and fund them. I actually agree with what you propose, but am having a hard time seeing how to get such a system in place. | ||