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Founder of AssembleAmerica.org. Using Citizen Assemblies to put power in the hands of everyday people. Join a movement for Democracy by Assembly! #DxA
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That is how elections work, yes. Name recognition is all most people go on. When your influence is next to nill, ignorance becomes rational.
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Let's start with understanding that product correctly: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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There is a way to dissent from that norm that isn't a far-right plot for tyranny. In fact, if we want an actual democracy, we really should. #Sortition
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Truth is, electoralism and political parties never produce VDA. But something can and is: Democracy by Assembly. #Sortition
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One strategy might be giving the American a vision of a real democracy to fight for. #Sortition
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Only one way out of tyranny--democracy by lottery. #Sortition
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Maybe ballots don't create democracy...
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If you read the essay, you might think differently.
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"Hmm. What is democracy?" #Sortition
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What is democracy? #Sortition
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What is democracy? #Sortition
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What is democracy? #Sortition
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Time for a democratic Court--and government.
#Sortition #Democracy
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Time for a democratic Court--and government.
#Sortition #Democracy
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Time for a democratic Court--and government.
#Sortition #Democracy
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Time for a democratic Court--and government.
#Sortition #Democracy
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Time for a democratic Court--and government.
#Sortition #Democracy
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Time to democratize the court--and our entire government. #Sortition #Democracy
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Must democratize the Court—and the entire government—through sortition. My design for such a new system here:
drpaulzeitz.substack.com/cp/147782222
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Just one flaw in this masterpiece: the Martian Assembly never adopted sortition to achieve true democracy, like their Athenian predecessors!
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My blueprint:
drpaulzeitz.substack.com/cp/147782222
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Might be a good time to abandon political parties. They're democratic anyway.
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Terrific! Join us at @assembleamerica.org
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What if I told you all voting sucks?
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No. Only banning politicians entirely will resolve our problems. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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This is brilliant: billionaire-proofing social media. @assembleamerica.org is working on something similar: billionaire-proofing democracy through Citizens' Assemblies. Same principle: take power from the ultra-wealthy and give it directly to everyday people. Being done in places like Ireland.
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Only one way for America to get a real democracy now.
#CitizensAssembly #Sortition #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #Democracy
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There's one way for the American people to end that tour and get a real democracy: sortition.
#Democracy #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #Sortition #CitizensAssembly
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Whether Trump is successful or not, the American system--with the exception of the jury--is not a democracy. But there is a way it could be: sortition.
#Sortition #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #CitizensAssembly
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Let’s make these forgotten women eligible and not a disgraced gambler.
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In the meantime, there is not a single woman player inductee in the Hall, despite thousands of professional women players, both in the 1940s and later.
Yet there are male managers and umpires in the Hall who never played themselves. Think about that.
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But if the MLB is serious about deterring the kind of behavior Rose engaged in and the corrosive value it has, it should not clear the way for his posthumous induction. What kind of message does that send? That it doesn’t matter in the end—we’ll induct you eventually?
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Induction into the shrine is an honor, not a right. Even if you have the best stats, it doesn’t entitle you to be inducted, because the Hall is meant to honor excellence in all aspects of a player’s career.
Obviously all the inductees are imperfect, and there are even some SOBs among them.
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Rose and his contributions to the game are in amply covered in the exhibition. So he is already in the Hall. What he doesn’t have is a gold-leaf plaque glorifying him in the shrine.
This is how it should be. Rose was banned from the shrine during his life because of his disgraceful behavior.
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The HoF has 2 parts: exhibitions detailing the history of baseball; and a shrine with several hundred plaques of the inductees.
The exhibitions have tons of memorabilia, images, stories, and facts about many players who are not inductees in the shrine.
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I’m a native of Cooperstown and actually worked in the Hall of Fame in high school. I even gave a tour once to members of the Big Red Machine. And I can attest that Pete Rose is already in the Hall. What do I mean?
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How about Democracy by Assembly? No parties, no politicians.
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