A community that talks about sortition/ lottocracy, a form of democracy where
people are randomly chosen to lead the government. This community is for
discussion, memes, screenshots, articles everything related to Sortition. It can
be humourous, informative, or even critical, but for the latter two please
provide sources. NOTE: all the rules are subject to change. I’ll lay down some
ground rules for now, but when mods change, they may or may not change the
rules. ____________________________________ # Rules ::: spoiler 1. Relevant
discussions only Please keep discussion about sortition only. ::: 2. Respect
everyone. ::: spoiler 3. Please back your arguments with proper citations. Be it
for or against. Make sure you’re quoting credible resources while arguing or
posting things. ::: 4. Self promotion must be relevant to Sortition, and must
require moderator permission.
Hey, so I’ve created a community to discuss and talk about sortition, a type of governance where leaders and officials are chosen at random. This was practiced by ancient Athens, and is considered to be much better at representation than normal democracy.
I think the Absolute State of the GOP disproves this. They have their own agendas and are some of the stupidest people alive, because they have cultivated a voter base that will never be satisfied with anyone who isn’t at least as illiterate, racist, anti-intellectual, and deluded as they are. Conservative Evangelicalism is a Problem.
A lottery council would be more to direct general values and goals of the government than day-to-day running. It’s essentially a more direct way of holding it accountable, the lottery council can quickly convene without all the hassle of a national election
At first I thought “ok yeah but the average human is not that smart” and then I started to consider if politicians are above or below the average…
If they’re smart but using that intelligence towards nefarious goals that’s even worse.
Above. Most of them just have their own agendas
I think the Absolute State of the GOP disproves this. They have their own agendas and are some of the stupidest people alive, because they have cultivated a voter base that will never be satisfied with anyone who isn’t at least as illiterate, racist, anti-intellectual, and deluded as they are. Conservative Evangelicalism is a Problem.
Oh yeah thr GOP exists lol. I was stoned and was thinking of just Democrats.
A lottery council would be more to direct general values and goals of the government than day-to-day running. It’s essentially a more direct way of holding it accountable, the lottery council can quickly convene without all the hassle of a national election
I don’t know, does social intelligence count? It’s basically the crowd you’d expect from a top-tier sales job, with some nepotism mixed in.