Political parties are organized members of power-sharing cartels who fight to keep shitty rules in place. They are likely to emerge and evolve in various democratic republics as they feed on power.
<i>Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. – </i>H.L. Mencken
Politics – meaning oligarchic elective majoritarian absolutism – is <i>easily abolished</i>. And fortunately so, since there is no escape from top-down, command-ordered statism without its annihilation.
Its abolition is accomplished through the correct use of <i>sortition</i>. By “correct,” I mean three things:
• total banishment of representative stratification;
• separate, isolated deliberation by the initial sortitioned electors who pick those to advance to the final round;
• arational selection from final random pools <i>after</i>, not before, multiple pool-forming communities impose their arbitrary qualifications of excellence on the first pool. – Yes <i>arbitrary</i>, constrained only by their multiplicity and the threat of abandonment, with no quibbling over a non-existent, classical-liberal, “universalist” charter of values that can only be enforced top-down, by a statist monopoly of the police power.
Sortition is among the suggestions for the Contest, though I was reluctant to suggest it. I glad to find someone who puts this at the center. (Also, I hope you will enter the contest if you have not already done so, T. L.) Curious about your book, too.
<i>Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. – </i>H.L. Mencken
Politics – meaning oligarchic elective majoritarian absolutism – is <i>easily abolished</i>. And fortunately so, since there is no escape from top-down, command-ordered statism without its annihilation.
Its abolition is accomplished through the correct use of <i>sortition</i>. By “correct,” I mean three things:
• total banishment of representative stratification;
• separate, isolated deliberation by the initial sortitioned electors who pick those to advance to the final round;
• arational selection from final random pools <i>after</i>, not before, multiple pool-forming communities impose their arbitrary qualifications of excellence on the first pool. – Yes <i>arbitrary</i>, constrained only by their multiplicity and the threat of abandonment, with no quibbling over a non-existent, classical-liberal, “universalist” charter of values that can only be enforced top-down, by a statist monopoly of the police power.
I detail all of this of my book <i>The Constitution of Non-State Government</i> (pp113-124). https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947660853
T.L. Hulsey
Sortition is among the suggestions for the Contest, though I was reluctant to suggest it. I glad to find someone who puts this at the center. (Also, I hope you will enter the contest if you have not already done so, T. L.) Curious about your book, too.