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I'm absolutely for trying this out. But not in the country I live in.

I think it makes sense in terms of a multicameral legislature. I can't imagine you want to pick the president by lottery or probably not even senators but why not the House of Representatives? Maybe we need a lawyer-heavy legislative body to write laws, but we also need legislators who aren't lawyers so people believe somebody in the legislature has some empathy for them.

As an additional committee which has to approve laws this might really make sense.

I think that it is for the president where this would be most beneficial.

For senators and representatives there still is a little randomness, but when I look at many presidents that have been elected in recent years in various countries, it is more than obvious that any randomly chosen individual would have been almost certainly a less bad human and more suitable for the presidential position.

After a president is chosen by lottery, there should be a rejection procedure, to eliminate any really inappropriate candidate, but then a new candidate should be chosen by lottery to replace the rejected one, until no reasons for rejection can be found.

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