Is This Any Way to Run Anything?

Imagine you live in a community that has... unusual... rules for selecting the mayor, the police chief, and the officers of the town council. The rules can be summed up this way: any head of a household is eligible, and all of them take turns holding the different positions.

Now, each community is like every community in at least one respect: the population runs the gamut from saint to sinner, from angel to devil.

The system limned above could result in, occasionally, a convicted wife-batterer being the mayor; the town drunk, the police chief; a known pedophile, the president of the town council; a man thrice-bankrupted, the council's treasurer; and, a functionally-literate woman, the council's secretary.

How long would such a community last? For that matter, how long ought such a community be allowed to last?

And how, exactly, is the UN any different?

Vide.

(Thanks, Patrick.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 04/29/03 11:58:36 AM
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