Comment by another-dave
2 years ago
Or you could do like a ancient Greece where serving in the Senate was more like jury duty & people are appointed by random ballot.
I think representative democracy is fine, it's career politicians I'd do away with.
> appointed by random ballot.
The term for this kind of election is sortition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
I would favour just appointing people by random ballot (not from a particular group). That would be far more representative of the population. It would solve issues like having fair representation for women of ethnic minorities etc.