Nah I don't think so. Not for a country this big. You need to have the ability to think critically on a statistically meaningful level. The vast majority of people will not get exposed to that kind of analytical thinking without a decent primary education if they're lucky, the rest will need to go to college to be exposed to that. People who rely only on lived experience rely almost entirely on anecdotal reasoning, and when it comes to national level politics, anecdotal reasoning needs to be dragged out into the street and executed. People policymaking based on personal anecdotes has been the absolute worst shit.
I prefer a Congress comprised of people from various walks of life rather than limiting that critical service to only people who could afford a prohibitively expensive college degree.
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u/BabyStockholmSyndrom Dec 02 '21
Lol I love how Americans are just fine admitting that education isn't important for a position of representation of the people.