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@reality-based
You say: "This is really a crazy notion for a democracy: "Let some elite body pre-screen our candidates for us!" I thought that's what sucks about the current system."
An elite body is hardly appealing and I certainly didn't mean to imply that such a body would do any screening. How to devise some sort of honor system by which candidates present the sort of information voters need to know in order to make the most informed decision possible - including the possibility of any possible deal breakers? Oh, democracy - so damned messy and vexing.