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Congress should be huge like the writer says, but also chosen at random like jury duty.
Every January, NYE, the ball drops...and 10,000 new names are chosen. They're sworn in a few weeks later, when we used to swear in the new President.
No fund-raising, no campaigning, just 10,000 Americans of all walks of life, set together to steer the ship.
That leaves a huge amount of power to the "random" selection algorithm and any other eligibility rules.
Computers cannot be random, true.
Humans cannot be "random", true.
Things outside of Human and Computers control, "random" to us. E.g. Lava Lamps.
We have ways of "randomly" selecting people, and we also have ways of not throwing non-eligible people in the hat. A couple of non-eligible people in 10,000 isn't going to matter if at least 5001 people are eligible and competent.
Now are humans capable of letting this happen "randomly" is another story
This is fraught with problems, but just to make my point: those potential jurors go through the selection process where they are whittled down. Conflicts of interest, bias, and more are all taken into consideration.
There’s also the fact that many Americans are just idiots. A not insignificant number of people legitimately believe the earth is flat.
Yeah randomness has been used effectively in the past but typically not that broad. Adding some chance to the process can be a good thing though as it limits the impact of corruption.
Oh absolutely, I don’t mean to say there is zero merit to the idea. It could absolutely be worked into a better solution than is currently in place in pretty much any country.