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Can randomly selected citizens govern better than elected officials?

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If you want to guess what Congress is going to do tomorrow, just about the last thing you should do is check in with political philosophers and theorists in the academy.
But if you want to know what Congress will do in 50 years, seeing <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22822706/john-rawls-theory-of-justice">what ideas are percolating in the academy</a> can be surprisingly informative.
That’s why I’ve been struck by the growing popularity, among academics, of a radical idea for rethinking democracy: getting rid of elections, and instead picking representatives by lottery, as with jury duty. The idea, sometimes called sortition or “lottocracy,” originates in ancient Athens, where democracy often took the form of assigning positions to citizens by drawing lots.
But lately it’s had a revival in the academy; Rutgers philosopher <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2488791">Alex Guerrero</a>, Yale political theorist <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181998/open-democracy">Hélène Landemore</a>, and Belgian public intellectual <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Against-Elections-David-Van-Reybrouck/dp/1847924220/r" has-subtag="true" data-cdata='{"rewritten_url":"https://smile.amazon.com/Against-Elections-David-Van-Reybrouck/dp/1847924220/r?ascsubtag=[]vx[p]22642159[m]m-placeholder[s]s-placeholder[t]w[c]c-placeholder[r]r-placeholder[d]d-placeholder","subtag_max_length":99,"subtag_delim_length":2,"subtag_key":"ascsubtag","subtag_data":{"ascsubtag":"[]vx[p]22642159[m]m-placeholder[s]s-placeholder[t]w[c]c-placeholder[r]r-placeholder[d]d-placeholder"},"encode_subtag":false}'>David Van Reybrouck</a> have been among the most vocal advocates in recent years. (If you’re a podcast fan, I recommend <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-helene-landemore.html">Landemore’s appearance on The Ezra Klein Show</a>.) The broad sense that American democracy is in crisis has provoked an interest in bold ideas for repairing it, with lottocracy the boldest among them.
It’s a proposal that might sound ludicrous. So much discourse around “saving democracy” — including President Joe Biden’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/1/11/22876524/joe-biden-filibuster-voting-rights-speech">speech</a> calling on the Senate to change the filibuster rules — revolves around protecting voting rights and access to the polls; it feels hardly imaginable to have a functioning democracy without elections.
But there’s a reason smart people are flocking to the notion. For one thing, randomly selected “citizen’s assemblies” have shown themselves to be viable in practice (at least on a smaller scale thus far), and have already been convened in a few cases, for purposes like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Convention_for_Climate">proposing climate policy in France</a> or reforming the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Assembly_on_Electoral_Reform_(British_Columbia)">electoral system in British Columbia</a>.
More importantly, choosing representatives randomly has some strong theoretical attractions.
The basic argument is that selection by lottery avoids many of the flaws and biases of elections.
In theory, representative, electoral democracy allows citizens to select authentic representatives of their interests. But in practice, this mission is undermined by the corrupting influence of campaign donors; the racial, gender, and other biases of voters; voter ignorance about which politicians and policies will best pursue their values; and on and on.
In an electoral system, a member of Congress who proposes, say, taxing imports will <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/companies-border-adjustment-tax/517593/">face a barrage of attacks from the likes of Walmart and Target that threaten their reelection</a>.
Representatives selected by lot don’t have to campaign and don’t need campaign funds, goes the argument, limiting opportunities for corruption. As Guerrero puts it, “Lotteries excel at preventing corruption or undue influence in the selection of representatives.”
Landemore argues that lotteries can also lead to more diverse and representative legislatures than elections, which should enable better and fairer decision-making.
In <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691176390/democratic-reason">earlier work</a>, she argued that part of what makes democracy a valuable system is its ability to incorporate a wider range of information and perspectives than just those held by an autocratic elite. Lotteries, <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/07/biden-democracy-summit-people-power/">she claims</a>, go further than elections, enabling the inclusion of perspectives systematically excluded in electoral democracy: “the introverted, inarticulate, short, and shy, as well as, typically, poor and Black or other people of color” who are disadvantaged in practice in electoral schemes.
No idea is foolproof and one can imagine many qualms about the idea of democracy by lottery.
One is that the seeming incorruptibility of the lottery might be a function of it existing as an ideal, not a heavily contested, actually existing body like Congress.
As noted above, there are a few cases of citizens’ assemblies in recent memory, including several in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Assembly_(Ireland)">Ireland</a> (which helped advance the country’s <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/05/a-jury-of-peers/">decision to legalize abortion</a>) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Climate_Assembly">UK</a> (where it produced a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54087176">report with ideas for reducing carbon emissions</a>). None of these cases have involved notable instances of corruption or bribery of the randomly selected citizens, or at least no such instances have emerged publicly.
But those assemblies have typically been tasked with proposing policies that a legislature or electorate then must ratify. Ireland, as a whole, voted in a referendum on whether to legalize abortion. The citizens’ assembly’s view was not binding.
If a citizens’ assembly were given binding power to determine billions in public spending, private interests would have a massive incentive to influence the design of the lottery, what briefing materials are given to the amateur representatives, which experts get to testify before them, etc. In other words, they might be plagued by precisely the problems of representative democracy that lotteries are designed to curtail.
In her book Open Democracy, Landemore deals with this objection in depth. For one thing, in her proposal (unlike Guerrero’s), citizens’ assemblies would only propose changes that would then go to a public vote. But she also cites her experience observing the French citizens’ assembly on climate change and arguing that “ordinary citizens, once empowered, are very protective of their prerogatives and will actively and vocally resist perceived attempts at manipulating them.”
That may be, but not all manipulation is overt. Much lobbying takes the form of lobbyists <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/lobbying-as-legislative-subsidy/AE4B5D8AB9C2487BB78C2A51BB53E03F">providing useful information to lawmakers</a>, albeit information framed so as to invite conclusions amenable to the lobbyist’s client. That process seems likelier to work on randomly selected citizens, who have a lower level of baseline political knowledge than people who self-select into running for Congress.
Landemore ultimately concedes that “any system would need to rely on additional accountability mechanisms, including laws regulating the role of money in politics.” That’s true enough — but it should give one pause about how likely a captured citizens’ assembly is to outperform a captured Congress, in terms of producing effective, broadly popular policies.
Second, a lot of the proposal’s effectiveness depends on being able to actually enlist the participation of a random subsample of the country. Guerrero proposes “considerable” financial incentives and providing relocation expenses and protection against firing for people chosen to serve. That would help ensure greater participation than, say, jury duty. But so long as participation is voluntary, self-selection will bias who winds up serving.
To give the lottocrats their due, such bias seems likely to be milder than any bias present in electoral democracy, which also requires would-be participants to self-select into service, along with self-selecting into fundraising, a grueling campaign schedule, etc.
Finally, I worry a bit about lottery selection increasing citizen alienation from the political system. One of our society’s deepest problems right now is a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-are-americans-so-distrustful-of-each-other-11608217988">broad decline in public trust</a> in other citizens and in <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/05/17/public-trust-in-government-1958-2021/">institutions</a> — a sense that government, business, and civil society do not work for ordinary people and that activities like voting do not help.
If citizens feel like that now, imagine how they’d feel if they were given literally no choice in who represented them.
Yes, random selection means that the whole public is represented in a general, statistical sense. But this process deprives individual voters of any sense that their own actions can influence political outcomes, which could in turn worsen trust in government.
Faced with this objection, Landemore has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-helene-landemore.html">responded</a> that in her view, lottocratic assemblies should mostly be tasked with coming up with proposals that would then be put up for a public vote, meaning the public retains a strong say. This eases the problem, but opens up the possibility of mass corporate spending to sway those referendum results; recall <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/4/21549760/uber-lyft-prop-22-win-vote-app-message-notifications">Uber and Lyft’s successful $200 million campaign</a> to pass a proposition in California to reduce their labor costs.
All that said, I’m excited to see more experiments with government-by-lottery. In California, for instance, I could imagine a citizens’ assembly empowered to produce a new state constitution that would be less encumbered by ballot referenda like <a href="https://slate.com/business/2016/09/californias-proposition-13-is-bad-policy-and-here-are-some-graphs-to-show-you-why.html">Prop 13</a> — which sharply limits revenue from property taxes and imposes a two-thirds supermajority requirement for when the legislature wishes to raise other taxes — that make governance in that state a nightmare. I would hope such a new constitution would have a smaller role for referenda.
I could also imagine citizens’ assemblies offering a way around congressional gridlock. Suppose Congress passed a law empowering an assembly to propose changes to gerrymandering and voting rights laws — with a promise that whatever proposal emerges will become law unless majorities in both houses rejected it. Congress might not give up much power, but would enable progress to be made.
<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22814025/democracy-trump-january-6-capitol-riot-election-violence">American democracy is in a bad way</a>. Desperate times call for trying something new.
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Father “On The Run” With 7-Year-Old Daughter To Prevent Mother From Giving The Child Covid Vaccine

A mother in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada is asking police for help after her ex-husband allegedly took off with their 7-year-old daughter in order to prevent the child from being subjected to the experimental Covid jab.
Mariecar Jackson wanted to vaccinate the young girl, but the child’s father, Michael Jackson, did not want to.
In mid-November, when the girl was scheduled to visit her mother, the father didn’t show and instead <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://rumble.com/vs5nrg-dad-on-the-run-as-ex-wife-says-she-will-obey-the-government-and-vaccinate-h.html" target="_blank">appeared on a show called Live With Laura Lynn</a> to explain his situation.
“Even if there’s a one in a million chance that your daughter could, not even die, but there’s a one in a million chance she couldn’t have a baby, wouldn’t that be enough?” the father said.
“I want everybody to see that Sarah’s healthy, she’s happy,” the dad continued, saying he fled because “they are coming for our children.”
The show’s host Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, formerly of “The 700 Club Canada,” supported the father’s decision to shield the girl from the vaccine.
The young girl told the host the vaccine “can change your DNA,” adding, “I don’t believe God wants me to. And it can make you sick and kill you.”
The episode was titled, “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://rumble.com/vs5nrg-dad-on-the-run-as-ex-wife-says-she-will-obey-the-government-and-vaccinate-h.html" target="_blank">Dad on the Run as Ex-Wife Says She Will Obey the Government and Vaccinate Her 7 Year Old Child</a>.”
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The girl’s mother told CBC News this week, “She’s only seven. She needs to be home. I just want her home.”
According to Mariecar, she hasn’t had contact with her daughter since a Nov. 21 phone call.
Saskatchewan judges have reportedly issued two court orders demanding the girl be returned to her mother, but Regina police say the copy of court documents provided by the CBC do not “provide the verification we would need” to merit an investigation by their department.
The girl’s mother issued a message to her daughter, saying, “Mommy will never stop looking for you. Mommy loves you so much. Every day, I pray that some day you’ll be home. I love you so much. Mommy is standing strong and some day we will be together.”
The hot-button vaccine issue will continue to tear apart families and friends around the world as the planned Covid pandemic is used to divide and conquer the people before ultimately ushering in the Great Reset.
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Man’s Obituary Blames Covid-19 Jab, Joe Biden For His Death

A Minnesota manufacturing worker’s obituary placed blame for his death on Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates and the experimental Covid jab.
In an obituary <a href="https://archive.fo/YSjcz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">posted online last week</a> regarding 41-year-old Derek Andrew McIntosh’s untimely death, his family reported he died from blood clots stemming from a Covid-19 vaccination.
The jab was evidently mandated by McIntosh’s place of employment.
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“Derek Andrew McIntosh passed away unexpectedly in the early morning hours on January 4th, 2022, due to complications from blood clots sending him into cardiac arrest after receiving his Covid 19 vaccine,” his family wrote.
The obituary notes McIntosh “spent two and a half years at St. Cloud State University, until realizing all college was, is a bunch of professors, imposing their liberal and Godless views on the young minds of our nation.”
It notes he worked “in Non-Destructive Testing Inspection at Kurt Manufacturing” prior to his death.
The death notice acknowledges McIntosh’s goal “to spread love and light” was cut short after he was forced to comply with the federal government’s mandatory vaccine orders.
“During the last weeks of his life… the world turned dark with heavy-handed vaccine mandates. The Governments were determined to strip away his right to consult his wisdom and enjoy his freedom,” the obituary noted.
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It added, “He had been vehemently opposed to taking the vaccine, so thank you Joe Biden for bringing on a premature death of a life not fully lived.”
As of Wednesday, the <a href="https://www.peterson-grimsmochapel.com/obituary/Derek-McIntosh" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">obituary appeared to have been amended</a> to remove references to blood clots and McIntosh’s sudden cardiac arrest, in addition to striking the family’s sarcastic “thank you” to Biden.
The Peterson Grimsmo Chapel, who hosted the online obituary and will host Mr. McIntosh’s services, did not respond to Infowars’ request for comment regarding the omissions.
Mr. McIntosh’s death comes as the US Supreme Court is weighing whether to allow the Biden administration’s federal vaccine mandate for private businesses.
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World Economic Forum Claims Climate Change Greatest Global Threat in 2022

The World Economic Forum (WEF) declared Monday that the “climate crisis” represents humanity’s greatest threat in 2022.
In addition to climate change, the WEF’s 17th edition of its <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Global_Risks_Report_2022.pdf" target="_blank">Global Risks Report 2022</a> listed social division, cybersecurity vulnerabilities and the pandemic recovery as the top long-term global risks.
“The climate crisis remains the biggest long-term threat facing humanity,” Peter Giger, group chief risk officer for Zurich Insurance Group, said in an accompanying <a href="https://www.weforum.org/press/2022/01/climate-failure-and-social-crisis-top-global-risks-2022" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">statement</a>.
“Failure to act on climate change could shrink global GDP by one-sixth and the commitments taken at COP26 are still not enough to achieve the 1.5 C goal. It is not too late for governments and businesses to act on the risks they face and to drive an innovative, determined and inclusive transition that protects economies and people.”
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The 117-page report calls for the WEF’s “Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies” to “catalyze a new economy and society” and “accelerate climate action.”
The report analyzes results from its Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), where respondents listed “climate action failure”, “extreme weather”, and “biodiversity loss” as their top concerns in the short, medium, and long-term.
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The WEF’s effort to portray climate change as humanity’s greatest threat dovetails with its Great Reset agenda, which seeks to deindustrialize the West in the name of reducing carbon output.
<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/guardian-promotes-global-lockdown-every-two-years-to-combat-climate-change/" target="_blank">“Climate lockdowns”</a> have already been proposed by mainstream media outlets, claiming they’ll need to be imposed on citizens every two years to save the planet.
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“Paedos & Propaganda”: Man Attacks BBC Statue Sculpted by Child Molester

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A man scaled the facade of a statue that was sculpted by a child molester outside BBC headquarters in London, defacing it with the words “paedos and propaganda.”
A protester carrying a hammer used an ordinary ladder to reach the monument, which was erected in 1933 by artist Eric Gill, who in 1989 was revealed to have sexually abused his daughters, sister and family dog.
As he chipped away at the statue, the man told police the statue should have been removed “decades ago.”
The man was subsequently arrested after a four hour standoff, with a crane being used to remove him from the 10 foot statue, which represents The Tempest character Ariel as a naked young boy.
“Gill’s statue has garnered controversy since its installation 88 years ago, when critics voiced concern over the size of the boy’s genitalia – prompting the tabling of a question in the House of Commons,” reports <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/12/protester-attacks-statue-bbc-headquarters-sculptor-sexually/">the Telegraph</a>.
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He is still up there and honestly doesn’t seem to be making much progress. I’m no expert, but bringing a hammer and no chisel seems like a lack of forward planning <a href="https://t.co/BXkX22opyy">pic.twitter.com/BXkX22opyy</a>
— Charlie Haynes (@charliehtweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliehtweets/status/1481320745716305928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2022</a>
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Many have questioned why the BBC itself didn’t remove the statue, particularly after revelations that the broadcaster had facilitated the cover up of the Jimmy Saville pedophile scandal.
Another statue made by Gill is situated inside the BBC building itself, although that hasn’t been removed either.
Last week, four left-wing activists were cleared of criminal damage for pulling down a statue of slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter protest.
This set the legal precedent that anyone can now destroy public art or works of heritage without punishment, so long as they claim to be offended.
“Coming just a week after the Colston verdict, this attack demonstrates that it was indeed a ‘vandal’s charter’ placing all of our built heritage at increased risk,” said Robert Poll, founder of the campaign group Save Our Statues.
“We have now entered a new age of barbarism, where the value of art is judged only by the politics imposed upon it, and destruction is considered progressive,” he added.
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We undermine the rule of law, which underpins our democracy, if we accept vandalism and criminal damage are acceptable forms of political protest.
They aren’t. Regardless of the intentions. <a href="https://t.co/JsOj0kNgWq">https://t.co/JsOj0kNgWq</a>
— Robert Jenrick (@RobertJenrick) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertJenrick/status/1478869026197712899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2022</a>
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Epic: Man With Hammer Tries Destroying Pedo Statue Outside BBC Broadcasting Building

A demonstrator was caught on camera smashing a statue near the entrance of BBC’s Broadcasting House in central London before eventually being arrested.
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The statue being vandalized was created in 1933 by known pedophile Eric Gill.
<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10395493/Hammer-wielding-activist-scales-BBCs-Broadcasting-House-starts-destroying-Eric-Gill-sculpture.html" target="_blank">According to the Daily Mail</a>, Gill’s diaries released in the 1980s revealed he molested his two daughters, sisters and his dog during his lifetime.
Named, “Prospero and Ariel,” the statue is inspired by Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, and depicts an elderly man caressing a young, naked boy holding a flute.
The man who damaged the statue climbed up a ladder while wearing a “Reservoir Dogs” t-shirt, a cult classic 90s film, before striking the sculpture with a hammer multiple times over four hours.
Police watched as they tried to engage with the man, and he was eventually brought down safely by the London Fire Brigade using an elevated platform.
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While the police negotiators talked with the man, he told them the statue should have been taken down years ago.
The phrases “Noose All Peados” and “BBC Peados + Propaganda” were also written on the statue.
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After detaining the activist, a police spokesperson said, “He was checked by London Ambulance Service before being arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and taken into custody.”
UK political activists have been trying to get the statue removed for years.
Just last week, <a href="http://four%20people%20of%20criminal%20damage%20for%20pulling%20down%20a%20statue%20of%20slave%20trader%20edward%20colston%20in%20bristol/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">four people were acquitted of criminal charges</a> after pulling down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.
It will be interesting to see if the man who damaged the BBC pedo statue will be punished while the individuals who took down the Colston statue were found not guilty.
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Pushed as a conspiracy for years, now the truth is coming out about Pedos in Power. 
 
 
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news Epic: Man With Hammer Tries Destroying Pedo Statue Outside BBC Broadcasting Building

A demonstrator was caught on camera smashing a statue near the entrance of BBC’s Broadcasting House in central London before eventually bein...