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Man accused of killing daughter’s rapist says he’s running for sheriff because the ‘system failed’
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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The idea of electing sheriffs is just colossally stupid.
Why? It makes way more sense than having it be an appointed position that's not accountable to voters directly.
Also, the sheriff is really just the manager of the deputies. So you're directly electing the manager of the people enforcing the laws against you.
Having an armed elected official that can start criminal investigations/parallel construction into any one challenging them in an election is a shit idea is why.
Them running an election campaign while solving crime is a shit idea. Having to create election donation rules around the conflict of interest to donating to a sheriff's campaign or not or only rich can run a campaign et cetera is group of shite ideas.
Because LEO should not be in representative government.
They should be appointed by the county council to a term of four years. They should be easily removed because do we or don't we believe in public sovereignty and sheriffs usually bend to kings rather than a republic.
I actually think the underlying issue is that the voters are as dumb as a box of hammers at this point.
There certainly is a problem that happens in American when people elect sheriffs who are totally incompetent, or partisan and corrupt, or just like this guy seem like they might be motivated more by thirst for vengeance against the allegedly-guilty than they are by trying to make the world a better place. But I actually think the real issue is that people see a couple of campaign commercials or articles like that, and see how well their emotional manipulation lines up with that person's particular emotional stereotypes, and that is literally as far as it goes in terms of deciding who they pick to shape and mold the world they live in.
That's why we have Trump, that's how we got Mitch McConnell, that's how we got the DNC who kneecapped Bernie Sanders. If people were informed and then actively engaged in shaping the government that rules over them day to day, then electing sheriffs would be fine (actually probably better than having the old boy's club pick them). How we get from here to there, however, I have no real idea...
Have you seen what voters have been voting for lately?
Should we also have people directly vote for the head of the EPA?
Sounds like you're getting close to suggesting we shouldn't be voting for who runs the executive branch of the federal government either.
Just like the founding fathers intended.
Oh yeah? Please, continue to explain to me what I believe.
I don't think we should have votes for positions that should be appointed by the people we do vote for.
It's really not hard to understand.
When did I start?