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“Mother #*^%er.” “What’s wrong?” “Sigh. Just got this in the mail. It says I have to be president this year.”
by Waterluvian 4y ago
“Mother #*^%er.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Sigh. Just got this in the mail. It says I have to be president this year.”
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoThis is not as far-fetched as it would seem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition The ancient Greeks pretty much appointed magistrates and others by lottery, and every citizen participated in a very direct democracy. The Greeks saw this as a counter to oligarchy. I'm not sure that today's federal government is very far off from oligarchical tendencies.
- tengwar2 4y agoYou can't generalise about ancient Greeks like that. Every polis (city state) had its own constitution, and they were more radically different than any we have now. There were some poleis which used sortition, yes, but others had something more recognisable to our voting system. And of course there were the Spartans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_Constitution.