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> I'm not qualified to know who will make a good president. You probably aren't either. Pushing the process further into American Idol territory would make it worse, not better.

Randomly-selected citizens would have outperformed what we’ve gotten in the last few elections at minimum.

Genuinely think we should consider that.



Athens actually had part of the legislative body chosen by random lot. It makes some amount of sense as a check against entrenched power structures.




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