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Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) by daxfohl on Saturday September 05, 2020 @01:35PM (#24385353)
I'd be interested to see an application of sortition as a government principle. It's government by random selection, similar to jury duty, and was used by ancient Athens.

Wikipedia lists out the disadvantages, so nobody is claiming it's a perfect system. But I think it could eliminate many of the problems with modern "democracy", including gerrymandering, lack of diversity, distrust of "deep state", lobbying. Everyone would feel included, and I think that's important. A big part of our modern problems are due to the feeling of being left out: racial and religious minorities on one side, less-educated on the other, which creates the huge chasm of us-vs-them that shouldn't exist.

Plus it would make government boring again, so we wouldn't have this widening gulf between citizens on party lines and 24/7 smear campaigns on the national news. News would actually report news, imagine that!

Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) by berdario on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:53PM (#24385958)
Yeah, sortition looks very promising, I recently read this article describing it:

https://newpol.org/issue_post/the-return-of-democracy-by-lot...

My main concern with it, is that black people (and BLM supporters in general) are routinely excluded from jury duty in the US, so if there's a system in place that could exclude people from sortition, that would be ripe for abuse