That's because our political system according to the Greeks is called an oligarchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorti

That's because our political system according to the Greeks is called an oligarchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition Most Athenians believed sortition, not elections, to be democratic[12][page needed] and used complex procedures with purpose-built allotment machines (kleroteria) to avoid the corrupt practices used by oligarchs to buy their way into office.