I'm a huge advocate of something known as sortition, where people are randomly selected to serve in a legislature. Unfortunately the typical gut reaction against sortition is bewilderment and skepticism. How could we possibly trust ignorant, stupid, normal people to become our leaders?
This seems like a great step toward anarchy is the ideal sense, because anarchy in practice is not chaos but harmony. What prevents the same forces of corruption on a sortition that have found their way into politics? Removing the influence and channel of corruption from campaign donations would be huge, but that could also be resolved in campaign finance reform and publicly funded campaigns. I'm thinking of the promise of high paying jobs or employment post term. Maybe have some kind of law in effect that prevents any entity engaged in lobbying from hiring current or past representatives
Why randomly choosing people to serve in government - sortition - might be the best way to select our politicians
This seems like a great step toward anarchy is the ideal sense, because anarchy in practice is not chaos but harmony. What prevents the same forces of corruption on a sortition that have found their way into politics? Removing the influence and channel of corruption from campaign donations would be huge, but that could also be resolved in campaign finance reform and publicly funded campaigns. I'm thinking of the promise of high paying jobs or employment post term. Maybe have some kind of law in effect that prevents any entity engaged in lobbying from hiring current or past representatives