Elections Are Terrible For Democracy

We should treat public service like jury duty instead

In Greece, they used a kleroterion to put people in office. You ran some balls through a tube, and the row/column the white ball landed on would be ‘selected’. Animation via TedEd

Look, it’s just not working out. Western democracies have devolved into oligarchy. Eastern democracies have reverted to feudalism. We’re electing millionaires and scions and calling it freedom but it’s just not. We need to try something else.