@dlakelan this video made me think of you. LegalEagle has been right on this issue for as long as I have followed them.
Thanks for thinking of me? He says things that I think represent the ideal position when you constrain yourself to having Enlightenment era liberal govt ideals.
If you selected representatives by random draw I'd probably even be able to get on board with much of it even today.
But I believe Enlightenment ideals of govt was *designed* to impose the will of elites on everyone else. They were even pretty explicit about it! And I don't agree with it.
@dlakelan most ideas, including good ones come from terrible places.
I have advocated for some kind of random draw for representatives for as long as I can remember.
We don't want legislators that ate good at wining elections, we want a fair representation of the populous.
This was, in some sense, the earliest method of "democracy" sure it was still just the elites, but sortition was the strategy in Athens originally.
