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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
An odd form of government would be one that only allowed felons to run for elected office and saw serving in elected office would be a form of community service. In effect, elected office would be seen as so corrupting that only people who were already imprisoned would be fit for elected office. Of course, acts of malfeasance within elected office would get the felons placed in a special category of prisoners who were too corrupt even for elected office.
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There would probably also be certain types of crimes that would invalidate someone for public office automatically, much as how a fraud conviction prevents one from working in the financial sector. One possible advantage to only having convicts run for office - you're not so much putting people with a history of breaking the law in office, you're putting people with a history of
getting caught in office, implying they might not be so skilled at avoiding detection (at least in theory, and until you get some mastermind who purposefully gets caught for a relatively minor crime so that he can run for office and be as corrupt as his sneaky little heart desires). I wonder if the political parties would basically be extensions of prison gangs (or vice versa). Such a setting would undoubtedly be... interesting.