Thursday, April 16, 2020

Don't You Worry Your Pretty Little Heads About It

Some political theorists and others have long argued that we should at least partially replace conventional democratic elections with decision-making through "sortition"—using randomly selected groups of voters to either elect government officials or make at least some types of policy decisions directly. [More]
Why not just cut to the chase and let a strongman do it?

[Via Michael G]
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1 comment:

  1. Henry4/16/2020 6:25 PM

    Or we could just elminate the randomly-chosen middleman entirely and run elections like William F. Buckley proposed.

    https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/31/telegovern/

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