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@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 British politics also sources candidates very differently from in the US. In a sense, parties “draft” prospects out of university student government (which is an actual meaningful institution there unlike in the US) much in the same manner as college sports in the US and then run them through the party system until a spot opens up on the map to run them in. In the US, it’s actually preferred to find candidates have experience outside of politics (or at least national politics) and that they have a meaningful connection to the area they will represent. On the note of being very federal and decentralized, the US also never succeeded in creating an Eton-like institution where all powerful families went to school. Groton came closest, but still nowhere near to the degree of Eton.
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