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by Datenstrom 1479 days ago
Maybe governance simulation can be worked into some standardized test for basic competence for lawmakers. Or is that not democratic?
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> Maybe governance simulation can be worked into some standardized test for basic competence for lawmakers. Or is that not democratic?

It would be profoundly anti-democratic. Just, as a thought experiment, imagine if the game was "Socialist Utopia: Central Planning Works." A requirement like you propose would amount to a program of ideological indoctrination, either deliberate or inadvertent.