The hard truth is: in those advanced societies whose parliamentary/electoral mechanisms are long established , the immediate prospects of sortition are either next to nihil ,or very slight. The consensus still goes to passing sovereignty to elected, professional representatives. The technology to cancel such delegation to politicians is now available. It’s public psychology that lags.… Continua a leggere ARGUMENTS TO WIN MINDS AND HEARTS TO SEMIDIRECT DEMOCRACY BY SORTITION
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ROSS PEROT UNINTENTIONAL PROGENITOR OF E-DEMOCRACY AND SORTITION
If we can envisage the day when democracy will go from representative to deliberative, i.e. the day when sortition will substitute elections, it’s because in the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign an independent serious candidate named Ross Perot advanced the bold challenge to tradition: if elected, I will not govern with Congress, but with you the… Continua a leggere ROSS PEROT UNINTENTIONAL PROGENITOR OF E-DEMOCRACY AND SORTITION
AN ITALIAN ROAD TO RANDOMCRACY
If some ‘laws of History’ could be taken seriously, in Italy we should feel predestinated to be first in conceiving a better democracy. Not because of the glories of our remote past, rather for the simple fact that our democracy is more disfunctional than other ones in the West. The tribes of our peninsula did… Continua a leggere AN ITALIAN ROAD TO RANDOMCRACY
A SKETCH OF RANDOMCRACY
Western representative democracy is a joint venture, better a collusion, between plutocracy and political professionalism, i.e. between money and careers. Man in the street is a non-entity. The way to cancel such monstrosity is disempowering both plutocrats and professional politicians, then empowering man in the street through selective, direct democracy. In the USA 300 million… Continua a leggere A SKETCH OF RANDOMCRACY