adam . # .

Well: ... the citizen commentariat are more or less self-educated experts. The thing is people have a whole set of political folk-beliefs, like the worth of protectionism, etc, but there are unintuitive results out there, which experts are aware of, that make experts reluctant to chase these solutions. All expert domains, eg medicine, have these problems, which non-specialists aren\'t aware of, because they don\'t have time.

Evidence from modern experience with sortition is that citizen juries go through a similar education process when they have time to digest the results, but without the same debts to faction or worries about getting re-elected; just a concern about being able to go back to their day to day lives having improved matters in the common weal.

Without the input of experts - not leadership, but access to the advice therof - you risk rash and damaging populist action.