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In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle (theintercept.com)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (10 children)

How can we fix our political system so it no longer attracts the worst among us?

[–] DeathbringerThoctar 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Make the job a chore. Treat it like jury duty. That way it's not a career choice, it's a genuine civic contribution.

[–] something_random_tho 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You’re describing the original Athenian democratic system, Sortition. People were randomly selected for government, and as a result policies were truly representative of what people wanted. It was effective.

It was tried later in Venice and Florence, and it failed because it only selected from nobles, not everyone.

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