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“Congress need to look like us.” Yep. Civic Assemblies: randomly selecting people—like a large jury— to bring life experience, learn, deliberate, make policy on an issue-by-issue basis. Real democracy not oligarchy. “Congress needs to reflect its people.” Over 1,000 Civic/Citizens Assemblies held world wide —US IS FAR BEHIND. demnext.org…
“Congress need to look like us.” Yep. Civic Assemblies: randomly selecting people—like a large jury— to bring life experience, learn, deliberate, make policy on an issue-by-issue basis. Real democracy not oligarchy. “Congress needs to reflect its people.” Over 1,000 Civic/Citizens Assemblies held world wide —US IS FAR BEHIND. DemNext.org is one group doing this. Bend, OR just did one of the first in the US—it is easily scalable to national level. To see what happened in Bend, OR to get an idea: cocap.us