I think they fucked it up, but I think the US government's "two legislative chambers, one emphasizing popular support, one emphasizing geographical distribution of support" idea is fundamentally good.

At one point I got this idea the ideal form of government might be 2 chambers:

- One pure proportional representation chamber (STV)
- One chamber where you have equal-population ridings/districts, each electing 1 person that "represents them" (selected by ranked vote, of course)

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However I posted this, and someone replied:

"What about a chamber elected by pure lottery?"

and now I am haunted by the idea that *this might actually be the ideal form of government*. A unicameral legislation of a couple hundred people, each drawn literally at random from the entire populace. This idea is batshit and has several critical problems. I think it might actually be better in several ways than electoral democracy.

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