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Sortition as a scheme fails to reckon with the nature of power and how individuals wield it. There is a reason you only ever see these kinds of citizen’s counci
by 27thPW 1y ago
Sortition as a scheme fails to reckon with the nature of power and how individuals wield it. There is a reason you only ever see these kinds of citizen’s councils created when legislatures don’t want to deal with particular issues, and most of the time their final reports and recommendations are ignored.
For sortition to work the bodies need to be vested with real power. Are we ready to hand over levers of a complex society to a representative sample of our peers? Or to demand that they be handed over?
- whatever1 1y agoNot everyone has to be selected by lottery, we can have a percentage of the total representatives. But I think it is important to have it, so that we break the barrier that political careerism poses. The set of people who are willing to run for office is a very limited set, and in the process of finding them we are filtering out a lot of signal. You keep ignoring the signal for too long, and it becomes a tsunami.