[brabel]

With the current MPs, why do you think they do not do what's best for themselves, or for whoever is sponsoring their political campaigns and lobbying them constantly? The question is not whether a technocracy would be perfect, it's whether it would be better than that, and your argument has zero explanatory power to answer that.

[tsimionescu]

Because they still need to win an election, so at least some of them need to do at least a few things that makes them popular enough. A technocrat only needs to make sure people aren't so desperate as to rise up.

This is really simple political theory, not some advanced concepts.

[brabel]

Nobody said the technocrats wouldn't also be elected, you made that up.

[tsimionescu]

So you simply want MPs who have a minimum standard of education? The fact that they are kept isolated for the duration of their term? That wouldn't prevent them from being bribed and lobbied in their election campaigns.

[switch007]

And the leaders of the proposed technocracy would be immune from lobbying and bribes?

[brabel]

Yes, because they would be easily "caught" if they didn't make decisions based on merit.

[tsimionescu]

By whom? What new institution that doesn't work today would work then?