"Real societies are made up of introverts, listeners, followers and caretakers, too. They have things to say and many contributions to make. Our politics, like a jolly hostess, should make room for — and bring out — all of them."
'If we actually want a democracy that reflects the thoughts of the country as a whole and delivers for everyone, we need to stop designing institutions around the “natural leaders.”' #democracy #citizenassemblies #sortition
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Great to see our friend Terry Bouricius make the case for sortition in Jacobin.
#sortition #democracy
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Our very own @nickcoccoma.bsky.social joined The Democratic Constitution Blog to ask a basic question: what is democracy? (Hint: It's not elections, parties, or parliament.)
#democracy #citizensassembly #sortition #constitution
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Stanford’s Jim Fishkin contrasts the ills of elections with the virtues of deliberative democracy:“In a healthy democracy, politics shouldn’t just be a contest of strength between parties — it should be a battle of ideas.”
#Democracy #Sortition
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Our own @nickcoccoma.bsky.social appeared on the [Undetermined] States of America podcast recently to discuss all things sortition. Have listen to Part I.
#Democracy #Sortition #CitizensAssembly
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Gonna further wager that if you used lotteries to pick everyday people from around the world to populate the UN, and made them equals inside the chamber, they’d resolve most global conflicts peacefully. #Sortition #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #Democracy
Gonna go out on a limb here: an assembly of everyday American citizens—picked by lottery, given the actual evidence and full range of options, and time to deliberate toward rough consensus—would not have decided to start a war with Iran. #Sortition #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA
Exactly why we need Citizens’ Assemblies on climate. France’s Climate Assembly (150 random citizens) recommended way more ambitious action than politicians ever would. When everyday people get real info without lobby pressure, they choose the planet over profits every time.
7/7 Same principle as Free Our Feeds: distribute power, prevent capture, serve the people. Time to assemble. #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention #CitizensAssembly #FreeOurFeeds
6/7 We're building Democracy by Assembly toward a People's Constitutional Convention by 2030. Citizens - not politicians or billionaires - redesigning our democratic architecture.
5/7 Ireland: Citizens solved abortion & marriage equality - issues politicians avoided for decades due to 'divisiveness.' Turns out regular people are less divided than politics suggests.
4/7 France's Climate Assembly: 150 everyday citizens recommended carbon taxes, flight restrictions, renovation requirements - policies politicians called 'impossible' due to 'public resistance.'
3/7 Citizens' Assemblies break this cycle. Random selection (like jury duty) + real information (not lobby talking points) + structured deliberation = decisions that serve people, not profits.
2/7 Right now: Billionaires buy politicians through campaign donations. Policy follows donor preferences, not voter preferences. See: climate inaction despite overwhelming public support for action.
🧵 1/7 @markruffalo.bsky.social and Free Our Feeds are billionaire-proofing social media. But what about billionaire-proofing democracy itself?
"Introducing within-party sortition would break the systems that enable political careerism."
Digested Read of an article by Keith Dowding, William Bosworth and Adriano Giuliani.
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Citizens Assemblies could legally constrain delegates at an Article V (some say "constitutional") convention, building democratic accountability into the amending process. So incredibly happy this truth is finally breaking through. Excellent article in the Fulcrum.
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"Rather than just tinkering around the edges of America's house, or getting trapped under its collapse, citizen assemblies will give it the massive renovation it needs and deserves."
Our Executive Director, @nickcoccoma.bsky.social, has a new article out in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social with Roshan Bliss of @ncdd.bsky.social on how citizen assemblies can help rewrite the Constitution.
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"When fundamental changes to a government are needed, who should get to make them? Elites and politicians who benefit from keeping things as they are? Or We the People?"
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Assemble America's @paul-melman.bsky.social is back at it this week with a shrewd post on the implications of AGI for democracy by assembly.
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