Since we need to start thinking about what comes next. What structure of democracy and connection and organization we need and want, I’ve given it already a good deal of thought and came on my own to an idea that was for the most part, the original intention and structure of democracy: Sortition. I wonder why we are never taught of this?

I have a pinned thread on this to consider.

https://mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/110531598480099232

#Governance #election vs. #sortition

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.

"In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample.

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.

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."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

#Democracy #ParticipatoryDemocracy #DirectDemocracy #Sortition