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  1. Serving as a Supreme Court justice should be like jury duty but for judges. None of this lifetime appointment business; trying to make a branch of government free of political influence is impossible. The best you can do is select candidates across as broad a population as possible with a selection standard that changes less often than the lifetimes of candidates. #sortition #lottocracy #demarchy

  2. Serving as a Supreme Court justice should be like jury duty but for judges. None of this lifetime appointment business; trying to make a branch of government free of political influence is impossible. The best you can do is select candidates across as broad a population as possible with a selection standard that changes less often than the lifetimes of candidates. #sortition #lottocracy #demarchy

  3. Serving as a Supreme Court justice should be like jury duty but for judges. None of this lifetime appointment business; trying to make a branch of government free of political influence is impossible. The best you can do is select candidates across as broad a population as possible with a selection standard that changes less often than the lifetimes of candidates. #sortition #lottocracy #demarchy

  4. Serving as a Supreme Court justice should be like jury duty but for judges. None of this lifetime appointment business; trying to make a branch of government free of political influence is impossible. The best you can do is select candidates across as broad a population as possible with a selection standard that changes less often than the lifetimes of candidates. #sortition #lottocracy #demarchy

  5. Serving as a Supreme Court justice should be like jury duty but for judges. None of this lifetime appointment business; trying to make a branch of government free of political influence is impossible. The best you can do is select candidates across as broad a population as possible with a selection standard that changes less often than the lifetimes of candidates. #sortition #lottocracy #demarchy

  6. CW: fringe political opinion

    I think most politicians should chosen by random selection rather than by elections. E.G. - your name gets drawn out of a hat and you get to be a congresscritter for the next two years, then you go home.

    I think this would avoid self-selecting power-hungry people for office, make politicians harder to bribe (they wouldn't need expensive election adverts) and provide a better representative sample of the citizenry.

    I think this system is called #demarchy, or #sortition

  7. CW: fringe political opinion

    I think most politicians should chosen by random selection rather than by elections. E.G. - your name gets drawn out of a hat and you get to be a congresscritter for the next two years, then you go home.

    I think this would avoid self-selecting power-hungry people for office, make politicians harder to bribe (they wouldn't need expensive election adverts) and provide a better representative sample of the citizenry.

    I think this system is called #demarchy, or #sortition

  8. CW: fringe political opinion

    I think most politicians should chosen by random selection rather than by elections. E.G. - your name gets drawn out of a hat and you get to be a congresscritter for the next two years, then you go home.

    I think this would avoid self-selecting power-hungry people for office, make politicians harder to bribe (they wouldn't need expensive election adverts) and provide a better representative sample of the citizenry.

    I think this system is called #demarchy, or #sortition

  9. CW: fringe political opinion

    I think most politicians should chosen by random selection rather than by elections. E.G. - your name gets drawn out of a hat and you get to be a congresscritter for the next two years, then you go home.

    I think this would avoid self-selecting power-hungry people for office, make politicians harder to bribe (they wouldn't need expensive election adverts) and provide a better representative sample of the citizenry.

    I think this system is called #demarchy, or #sortition

  10. CW: fringe political opinion

    I think most politicians should chosen by random selection rather than by elections. E.G. - your name gets drawn out of a hat and you get to be a congresscritter for the next two years, then you go home.

    I think this would avoid self-selecting power-hungry people for office, make politicians harder to bribe (they wouldn't need expensive election adverts) and provide a better representative sample of the citizenry.

    I think this system is called #demarchy, or #sortition

  11. @JoBlakely I agree that elections result in an abomination of a democracy, but sortition goes counter to too many myths current society seems to hold dear (or, more likely, have been conditioned to hold dear), so it probably won't get traction without a big upheaval. Examples being, professionalisation, meritocracy, and dumping all responsibility on individual choices by individual consumers, sorry, voters. Trusting random choice over individual "informed" one would also require a degree of humility that I'm not seeing.

    But in my opinion, #sortition (or #demarchy - it's got a better ring to it, IMO 🙂 ), is a great idea. And we'll either experiment with new ways to structure society, or soon there will be no society to speak of.

  12. @JoBlakely I agree that elections result in an abomination of a democracy, but sortition goes counter to too many myths current society seems to hold dear (or, more likely, have been conditioned to hold dear), so it probably won't get traction without a big upheaval. Examples being, professionalisation, meritocracy, and dumping all responsibility on individual choices by individual consumers, sorry, voters. Trusting random choice over individual "informed" one would also require a degree of humility that I'm not seeing.

    But in my opinion, #sortition (or #demarchy - it's got a better ring to it, IMO 🙂 ), is a great idea. And we'll either experiment with new ways to structure society, or soon there will be no society to speak of.

  13. @JoBlakely I agree that elections result in an abomination of a democracy, but sortition goes counter to too many myths current society seems to hold dear (or, more likely, have been conditioned to hold dear), so it probably won't get traction without a big upheaval. Examples being, professionalisation, meritocracy, and dumping all responsibility on individual choices by individual consumers, sorry, voters. Trusting random choice over individual "informed" one would also require a degree of humility that I'm not seeing.

    But in my opinion, #sortition (or #demarchy - it's got a better ring to it, IMO 🙂 ), is a great idea. And we'll either experiment with new ways to structure society, or soon there will be no society to speak of.

  14. @JoBlakely I agree that elections result in an abomination of a democracy, but sortition goes counter to too many myths current society seems to hold dear (or, more likely, have been conditioned to hold dear), so it probably won't get traction without a big upheaval. Examples being, professionalisation, meritocracy, and dumping all responsibility on individual choices by individual consumers, sorry, voters. Trusting random choice over individual "informed" one would also require a degree of humility that I'm not seeing.

    But in my opinion, #sortition (or #demarchy - it's got a better ring to it, IMO 🙂 ), is a great idea. And we'll either experiment with new ways to structure society, or soon there will be no society to speak of.

  15. @JoBlakely I agree that elections result in an abomination of a democracy, but sortition goes counter to too many myths current society seems to hold dear (or, more likely, have been conditioned to hold dear), so it probably won't get traction without a big upheaval. Examples being, professionalisation, meritocracy, and dumping all responsibility on individual choices by individual consumers, sorry, voters. Trusting random choice over individual "informed" one would also require a degree of humility that I'm not seeing.

    But in my opinion, #sortition (or #demarchy - it's got a better ring to it, IMO 🙂 ), is a great idea. And we'll either experiment with new ways to structure society, or soon there will be no society to speak of.

  16. @ira

    You could have added the hashtag #Demarchy.

    If you don't have enough space in a toot for what you want to say, you can instead use a Friendica account and crossboost your posting from there to here.

    For example:

    🧷 libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-8

    HTH!

    🌺

  17. @ira

    You could have added the hashtag #Demarchy.

    If you don't have enough space in a toot for what you want to say, you can instead use a Friendica account and crossboost your posting from there to here.

    For example:

    🧷 libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-8

    HTH!

    🌺

  18. @ira

    You could have added the hashtag #Demarchy.

    If you don't have enough space in a toot for what you want to say, you can instead use a Friendica account and crossboost your posting from there to here.

    For example:

    🧷 libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-8

    HTH!

    🌺

  19. @ira

    You could have added the hashtag #Demarchy.

    If you don't have enough space in a toot for what you want to say, you can instead use a Friendica account and crossboost your posting from there to here.

    For example:

    🧷 libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-8

    HTH!

    🌺

  20. @ira

    You could have added the hashtag #Demarchy.

    If you don't have enough space in a toot for what you want to say, you can instead use a Friendica account and crossboost your posting from there to here.

    For example:

    🧷 libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-8

    HTH!

    🌺