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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>With the antics and atrocities committed by Trump since the start of his second term, there has never been a better time than today to implement a system of participatory democracy, or at least a political system in which political representatives are chosen by sortition. I honestly think it would be very difficult to achieve an outcome as bad as the one we have now.</p><p>"In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample.</p><p>In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and primary method for appointing political officials, and its use was regarded as a principal characteristic of democracy. Sortition is often classified as a method for both direct democracy and deliberative democracy.</p><p>Today sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in common-law systems. What has changed in recent years is the increased number of citizen groups with political advisory power, along with calls for making sortition more consequential than elections, as it was in Athens, Venice, and Florence."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortitio</span><span class="invisible">n</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ParticipatoryDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParticipatoryDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DirectDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Sortition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sortition</span></a></p>
Floaty Birb<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>I think this system is called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/demarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demarchy</span></a>, or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sortition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sortition</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cat/@CptSuperlative" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CptSuperlative</span></a></span> On randomness, <em>still</em> my favourite article of the past two decades, "If you can't choose wisely, choose randomly", by Michael Schulson:</p><blockquote><p>As moderns, we take it for granted that the best decisions stem from a process of empirical analysis and informed choice, with a clear goal in mind. That kind of decision-making, at least in theory, undergirds the ways that we choose political leaders, play the stock market, and select candidates for schools and jobs. It also shapes the way in which we critique the rituals and superstitions of others. But, as the Kantu’ illustrate, there are plenty of situations when random chance really is your best option.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-randomly" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-ch</span><span class="invisible">oose-wisely-choose-randomly</span></a></p><p>Much more, and apparently heavy reliance on a couple of books I'd still like to read, by Michael Dove, Michael Stone's <em>The Luck of the Draw: The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making</em>, Robert Finlay's <em>Politics in Renaissance Venice</em>, and a few others. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fire.asta.lgbt/@aud" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aud</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MichaelSchulson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelSchulson</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/randomness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>randomness</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/sortition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sortition</span></a></p>
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