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They are supporting sortition, right? 
They are, although:—
In America, imagine that anyone who wants to enter the pool has to pass a civics test
gets thrown in without the slightest mention of the history of voting restrictions masquerading as tests.
What's more American than casually preventing brown people from participating in governance?
arent elections the whole thing with democracy?
no.
democracy is collective decision making and action, not 
Well it's that and vote but most Westerners think it begins and ends with just
Gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they mean elections vs other democratic practices like sortition or maybe even direct democracy. The issue being that elections can be rigged or at least turn into popularity contests. Though the other methods have their issues too
Yeah it's talking about bringing in sortition.
The problem is that they never mention how it can be actually brought about. A revolution is needed to upturn the current system anyways, and we might as well go for socialism instead of weak sortition.
Socialism would still need to be democratic, how would we make group decisions?
Socialism is democratic comrade.
NYT journalists should be dealt with in the same way as the Nazis they swoon over
The liberal paper of record
Fake account
(Is this real?)
But they changed the title lol lmao even. Either they're painfully aware they're nothing but a shit version of Fox news for libs(i.e just rage bait for ad views) or they realy thought that was a line they couldn't cross just yet i.e their readers are too dumb to realize they're actualy saying this unironically.
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