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I'd be interested to see an application of sortition as a government principle. It's government by random selection, similar to jury duty, and was used by anci
by daxfohl 6y ago
I'd be interested to see an application of sortition as a government principle. It's government by random selection, similar to jury duty, and was used by ancient Athens.
Wikipedia lists out the disadvantages, so nobody is claiming it's a perfect system. But I think it could eliminate many of the problems with modern "democracy", including gerrymandering, lack of diversity, distrust of "deep state", lobbying. Everyone would feel included, and I think that's important. A big part of our modern problems are due to the feeling of being left out: racial and religious minorities on one side, less-educated on the other, which creates the huge chasm of us-vs-them that shouldn't exist.
Plus it would make government boring again, so we wouldn't have this widening gulf between citizens on party lines and 24/7 smear campaigns on the national news. News would actually report news, imagine that!
- berdario 6y agoYeah, sortition looks very promising, I recently read this article describing it: https://newpol.org/issue_post/the-return-of-democracy-by-lottery/ https://newpol.org/issue_post/the-return-of-democracy-by-lot... My main concern with it, is that black people (and BLM supporters in general) are routinely excluded from jury duty in the US, so if there's a system in place that could exclude people from sortition, that would be ripe for abuse