Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
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Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
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#2> What if elections are the problem?
Social media is the problem. We weren't this polarized until after the Bush admin, right as everyone on the planet got online.
Politics used to be civil. Republicans and Democrats in Congress used to go out to lunch together. Hyper online discourse and algorithms that boost rage ended that.
We're all being taught to foam at the mouth to increase screen time.
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#3It's really, ah, silly to claim this is a new idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition dates back to ancient Athens.
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#4It's really, ah, silly to claim this is a new idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition dates back to ancient Athens.
"Perhaps we can use this wild ancient idea to build a new, better democracy for the 21st century and beyond…"
I think they're acknowledging as much.
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#5Frankly it couldn't work any worse than our current system.
the problem with most politicians is that they're the sort of people who want to be politicians
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#6It's really, ah, silly to claim this is a new idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition dates back to ancient Athens.
> Perhaps we can use this wild ancient idea to build a new, better democracy for the 21st century and beyond…
The linked page makes it very clear that this is an old idea.
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#7> What if elections are the problem? Social media is the problem. We weren't this polarized until after the Bush admin, right as everyone on the planet got online. Politics used to be civil. Republicans and Democrats in Congress used to go out to lunch together. Hyper online discourse and algorithms that boost rage ended that. We're all being taught to foam at the mouth to increase screen time.
Which Bush?
Rush Limbaugh was amping up the polarization in the late 1980's.
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#8Frankly it couldn't work any worse than our current system. the problem with most politicians is that they're the sort of people who want to be politicians
Yeah, basically it becomes a very serious "jury duty".
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#9> What if elections are the problem? Social media is the problem. We weren't this polarized until after the Bush admin, right as everyone on the planet got online. Politics used to be civil. Republicans and Democrats in Congress used to go out to lunch together. Hyper online discourse and algorithms that boost rage ended that. We're all being taught to foam at the mouth to increase screen time.
They still go to lunch together. They do so at climate conferences, Davos, and all the other places us peasants are not invited to.
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#10So called democracy is already "hacked". What you do is create a two party system in most countries, which provides the illusion of choice.