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Actually, the beauty of it is you don’t vote for sortition.
by labster 3y ago
Actually, the beauty of it is you don’t vote for sortition.
- ggm 3y agoStrong chicken/egg value here. Before you have sortition, how do you decide to have sortition?
- drewcoo 3y agoThe egg came first. Many lizard-deciding-bodies or mechanisms may have chosen sortition! And perhaps it was a bad habit or even an old charter to throw names in a hat, not without the notice of the literate or the haberdashers/milliners union(s), who sought to leverage their skills into greater advantage . . .
- drewcoo 3y agoI thought that was the joke.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoGeorge Carlin would agree. Fewer idiots electing fewer charismatic despots would be a good start. Also, I don't vote so the politicians are the responsibility of people who mistakenly believe their vote matters when they are selectively stolen, gerrymandered, and manufactured consent into futility. 45 may have tried to steal Georgia like a moron, but Bernie lost the 2016 WV primary even though every district voted for him as the consequence of that state's electors collusion with one candidate. Until there's sortition, campaign finance reform, or an emperor, NPVIC could eventually be a potential workaround for electoral mutinies. Until then, there's not much chance of change because the only viable candidates are celebrities and career politicians willing to bend the knee to big money donors in exchange for favor$.
- funnymony 3y agoProblem is that despots want power, whatever system you have you will get despots wanting to be at the top, and doing what is necessary to get there. Democracy at least moves them around a bit.
- nottorp 3y agoOne interesting fact in the article is that for the top spots at least, you did it once for a year and then you were barred from that office for like 10.
- notahacker 3y agoSortition doesn't remove the idiots who vote for charismatic despots, it hands them the role of drafting legislation and directly deciding which individuals run the public services and the military...
- ffhhttt 3y ago> career politicians Possibly preferable to career billionaires (which was the case in every premodern republic like Rome or Venice)