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I want to say no celebrities or billionaires so badly, but if you believe that nearly ALL politicians are irredeemably corrupt, then that's where we have to go for the people with the money and/or name recognition to win.
If you are going to vote for someone other than a politician, than an intelligent person who has spent the last couple of decades closely following politics and commenting on it every night might be a good option, provided they have the morals for it. I generally don't think much of the morals of billionaires or celebrities, but they're far better than MAGAs. At least they aren't enthusiastic traitors and pedophiles.
Well... Ideally, politics would be a boring job. Make small incremental improvements. No political parties, just guys (and gals and whatnot more) that can put themselves to be elected, and when elected, they get to do, a job for a few years or so. After that, they can go back to whatever else they want to do.
It should be boring
Hell, people shouldn't put themselves on a list to be elected, let's just pick a guy and if you're tagged, you're it for a year or so
Requirements are that you have at least studies in the subject matter and have 10 years experience in the field.
I dunno, I'm just writing silly ideas here but anything is better than all the political systems we have now