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No, to fix democracy you have to stop voting and instead select politicians by lot. It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and
by amai 6y ago
No, to fix democracy you have to stop voting and instead select politicians by lot.
It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election (Aristotle)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
A first step in this direction is the establishment of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly , as in modern democracies like Canada, Ireland or even Mongolia. (https://constitutionnet.org/news/mongolias-flawed-experiment-deliberative-polling-constitutional-reform https://constitutionnet.org/news/mongolias-flawed-experiment...)