I wouldn’t necessarily start with LA but I would be fascinated to see this sort of experiment actually executed for a fixed 8/10-year period in a reasonably-sized city (“has its own newspaper” size). twitter.com/ArthurSmid/sta…
This is such a whole-system all-at-once change that you can’t really pilot it without doing it. I personally think it would create more democratic problems that it solves, but I’m very open to being proved wrong. And better to try it at a scale where you can find the problems
I’m not naïve – I know the logic of political power is that no one will make the sort of self-denying decision that would be needed to make it happen, and even if it failed we would endlessly hear it was because it had not been done right … but still, it *would* be interesting.
(I am also conscious of the argument that sortition lawmaking is a denial of fundamental human rights as they are defined in some places, ECHR Paris Protocol Art 3 for instance).
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 18 October 2022. View the original thread.