Next step: overcoming names, looking at the system, so called democracy. Throw away your vote to elect members (all of them privileged, upper class) of some duopoly or multipoly - or be part of the (real) political process via #Sortition!
Solution: #Sortition!
West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Residents Assembly
#WestMidlands
#ResidentsAssembly
#Sortition
#Democracy
www.sortitionfoundation.org/wmca_2026
And if the turnout falls below 50% of eligible voters that's an indication of lack of desire for any of the candidates. In that case the representative should be picked by lot from the eligible voters.
#Sortition
A simple way for every member of the diaspora to preempt accusations: to let the Iranian people deliberate and decide on their own future. In other words, to refrain from seeking and exercising power. “Ego or Iran?”
medium.com/@kairos.soci...
#sortition #citizens’assembly #representation
Why not simply pick regular people at random instead of trying to “educate” elites until they have learned what regular people’s life is like? 🤷🏻♂️
Democracy ≠ elections
Democracy = random selection
#sortition #representation
Public Democracy LA meetup on April 4th. Sign up here luma.com/mko8uq31 #civicassemblies #citizensassemblies #sortition #losangeles
LA Charter Reform Civic Assembly Reports to the Commission www.publicdemocracyla.org/post/charter... #civicassemblies #deliberativedemocracy #democraticlottery #sortition
Im trying to get Hamish and Geraldine to do an episode on #sortition on their global roaming RN show.
I've emailed them.
If others email them too its more likely to happen.
Would you like to email them?
global.roaming@abc.net.au
#auspol
Q.
Has there ever been a national election in any country that elected representatives who accurately reflected the demographics of their adult electorate?
Even close to reflecting the demographics?
Ever?
🤔
A randomly selected panel from all adults would reflect society 100% from day 1
#sortition
I'll tell you the difference. The USA or more accurately the Failing States is not a democracy it's an oligarchy .
Australia is still a democracy but its diminishing.
Democracy is dying
What is next?
Lets fight for #sortition
It'll have a parliament reflecting the country on day one.
*) À pro pos "the Iranian people"…
Cp. the representative random selection of the Herefordshire Citizens' Climate Assembly(www.sortitionfoundation.org/herefordshir...)
#representation #sortition #citizens'assembly
Simply standard procedure of mighty players in the so called (!) democracy. #Sortition makes all thes moves of the powerful rich obsolete and transfers society into real democracy!
It's still Party dominated.
A ladder to power.
And a corruption highway.
No more Parties.
#CitizensAssemblies
#Sortition
#EvidenceBasedPolicy
#CriticalThinking
#ActiveListening
#DeliberativeDebate
Imho we don't need politicians.
People can do it for themselves.
#CitizensAssemblies
#Sortition
Who represents Iran? Only the Iranian people themselves.
#sortition #citizens’assembly
medium.com/@kairos.soci...
"We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington."
How to?
Only way: #Sortition #Lottocracy!
Come hear the Rewrite LA presentation about the civic assembly recommendations to the LA Charter Reform Commission! Takes place tomorrow Tuesday, March 10th at 4:00 PM at City Hall, Board of Public Works Session Rm. 350 @reformlacharter.bsky.social #democraticlottery #sortition #civicassemblies
Time for #sortition
https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/herefordshire_climate_2022_report
Compare ethnicities in Iran and what #sortition [here: Herefordshire] could look like! How should they be represented except by their own representative samples?!
#citizensassembly #IranRevolution2026
#freeiran
medium.com/@kairos.soci...
Who speaks for Iran? Who speaks for all of these ethnicities – except themselves?
#sortition #irandemocracy #citizenscouncil #iranrevolution2026
medium.com/@kairos.soci...
Nope.
Who speaks for #Iran? The Iranian people ONLY.
Who decides for Iran? The Iranian people ONLY.
Reminder: this is called #SOVEREIGNTY.
#sortition #citizensassembly
medium.com/@kairos.soci...
Nope.
Who speaks for #Iran? The Iranian people ONLY.
Who decides for Iran? The Iranian people ONLY.
Reminder: this is called #SOVEREIGNTY.
#sortition #citizensassembly
medium.com/@kairos.soci...
Finally, the penny has dropped!
#sortition #lottocracy
“All real democracy is an attempt…to bring the shy people out.”
— #GKChesterton, winningly quoted by Hélène Landemore @hlandemore.bsky.social in Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule, on #CitizensAssembly, aka to ancient Greeks as #Sortition: news.yale.edu/2026/02/18/b... #booksky
Reads like a vote for #Sortition!
People's future under the rule of any duopoly can be nothing but bad!
US needs #Sortition!
🎯
Regular people to power ❗️
Random selection + deliberation + rotation
demnext.org 👇
#sortition
Venice?
“New regulations for the elections of the doge introduced in 1268 remained in force until … 1797. Their intention was to minimize the influence of individual great families … by a complex electoral machinery” based on #lottery.
#sortition
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
We really really need to explore this concept in real life and in fiction. The city of Sequoia in "A New Faith" is governed in this way.
tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#democracy #elections #voters #democrats #sortition #popular
