We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸

What would it take to save America from itself? The answer is a #PeoplesSenate! End Corruption with Citizen #Sortition.

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

It would be extremely challenging to #AbolishTheSenate by a constitutional amendment… Article V gives the Supreme Court a lot of leeway to suspend such an amendment

But we COULD pass a new amendment to elect 10 delegates per state to a People’s Senate using #Sortition 🇺🇸

[Paul Melman @Paul_Melman]

@PeoplesSenate At Assemble America we are working on a proposal for an Article V convention with delegates selected by sortition, inspired by the 2012 Irish constitutional convention

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

#NewProfilePic

[Paul Melman @Paul_Melman]

Meritocracy. Most agree that it's good in theory, but the degree to which it works in practice is debatable. Critics of meritocracy point to the various ways in which ostensibly meritocratic institutions are often subverted. Coordination by sub-groups intent on dominance is the biggest threat by far to meritocratic institutions. But there is a way to defend against this threat: lotteries

Link in reply

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

@vanillaopinions the worst cults are the ones that you are raised in from a young age. you can spend many years thinking the cult is just a normal part of life that way 🤷���‍♂️

[Russell Shaw Higgs @citizen_higgs]

protesters interrupt proceedings in House of Lords

https://t.co/40rbhkIjik

The organisers of the protest, Time to Assemble, wants to replace the unelected upper chamber with a “House of the People” selected by #sortition

[LiorLefineder @lefineder]

There is a sci-fi story I once read about a human ambassador in an alien society. The aliens use Sortitions (random appointments) to manage their affairs, the human asks how can their society function like this? and the answer is that the average alien is just so competent he can manage practically anything.
It's notable that the ancient Athenians also relied on sortition as the primary method of appointing officials.

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

Here’s an intriguing plan for a form of municipal sortition! 🗳️

[Eudaimonia ↗️🐦🧍‍♀️ @spoam]

@PinkoPatriot We 100% agree!

City councilors:

Apply for position with 2000 signatures and X credentials

Position chosen through sortition

5000 signatures forces a recall vote if they are horrible

Sortition occurs every year for 1/8th of the council

Councilors sit for 8 years

[Fleek Futurist (#uto) @FleekFuturist]

“predatory combinations, and a body which, by reason of the corruption often attending the election of its Members, has furnished the gravest public scandals in the history of the nation. . . ."

- Wisconsin House Representative #VictorBerger

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

@Tiger_on_Mars @PinkoPatriot Streamline the Law Making Process! ✊🏻

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

If you don’t respect our troops, you can’t lead them.

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember [HQ] https://t.co/mk5kjVaxWt

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

Oblique Occasions - guile https://t.co/xhjtaQJGWk

This album is lit! 🔥

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

@ThiaBallerina When it’s a divided Congress what do you expect?

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

@RonnieInBangkok @PinkoPatriot I think you’re just a fragile soul. 🙏

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

@RonnieInBangkok @PinkoPatriot Linking to context is a more effective way to argue about complicated subjects on Twitter outside of the common knowledge of the audience.

It helps keep everyone on the same page.

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

@RonnieInBangkok @PinkoPatriot Anyway, you might as well block my alt as well if you have such exacting standards for the conversations you are looking for here on Twitter.

[We Demand a People’s Senate 🇺🇸 @PeoplesSenate]

@RonnieInBangkok @PinkoPatriot We are not on a telephone call, old man. Other people are here along for the ride.

We are in an amphitheater, not on a coffee date.

[Anella Writes @anellawrites]

The United States should create a bipartison citizen panel to oversee congress. There's no one holding them accountable at this point. #CongressForPeople #UnitedStates