This video uses the '20-20' discipline as presentational format (i.e., 20 panels, each strictly 20 seconds long). "Next Step for Democracy" explains why sortition (random selection) is -- as Aristotle said of the first democracy -- the defining hallmark of democracy ... and why elections are the hallmark of oligarchy.
"Next Step for Democracy" is a plea for a government by the people, all the people.
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Common Lot Productions creates print and video materials which educate about, and advocate for, the next step for democracy. Policy-making bodies, from local to national, should be composed of willing and able citizens proportional to the population they serve. The use of sortition, random selection, is the only way to insure this.
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Whimsically provocative interview from the future. (In reading, recall that in 2008 'everyone knew' that a Kansan-Kenyan-American with a funny name had not a snowball's chance in hell...).
