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"[R]epresentative democracy is a failure and elections are a circus. If we want to reform democracy, elections have to be abolished." | A political strategy for degrowth (www.resilience.org)

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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Regarding this:

Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, and Insulate Britain recently said to Novara Media that he is a strong advocate for sortition and he is confident that people selected at random will rise up to the task. Sortition, which is basically a formation of government through various forms of selection by lottery, has been discussed by many authors. Just to name a few: Against Elections by David Van Reybrouck, Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance edited by John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright, The Trouble With Elections by Terry Bouricius, and George Monbiot in a Guardian article.

As for my opinion: sortition works. It works better if the population is educated. Sortitioned representatives can be rotated cheaper and more frequently, allowing for less corruption. Sortition can be monitored better than elections and is less divisive.

If anyone tries to get sortition implmented, help them out. But don't hope for it to reach national level in large countries anytime soon. There is inertia to overcome (things have to be proven) and oppositon from entrenched interests (things have to be forced through). It may take a long time for sortition to reappear in politics.