The counter against this charity: the "conservative silent majority" (or some massive latent outgroup) will be heard. This is akin to Curtis Yarvin's "Facebook Election" problem to differentiate civil democracy vs Aristotelian populism.
I love this idea! Sortition has always seemed like a potentially great system to fill exactly this kind of niche, because (like you said) it has such a potential to be non-partisan, common-sense, and generally good-faith. Actually getting a country's population and representatives to agree to such an initiative is usually the main issue, which this proposal elegantly sidesteps by making it an NGO.
A consideration: while sortition systems can reduce partisanship, there is no guarantee that it won't creep in and gridlock everything. There's a distinct possibility that Government Watch would simply split into two parties after a few years, which would make any two-thirds majority borderline impossible. Then again, something like 46% of Americans currently identify as Independents, so maybe that would keep things running.
The counter against this charity: the "conservative silent majority" (or some massive latent outgroup) will be heard. This is akin to Curtis Yarvin's "Facebook Election" problem to differentiate civil democracy vs Aristotelian populism.
I love this idea! Sortition has always seemed like a potentially great system to fill exactly this kind of niche, because (like you said) it has such a potential to be non-partisan, common-sense, and generally good-faith. Actually getting a country's population and representatives to agree to such an initiative is usually the main issue, which this proposal elegantly sidesteps by making it an NGO.
A consideration: while sortition systems can reduce partisanship, there is no guarantee that it won't creep in and gridlock everything. There's a distinct possibility that Government Watch would simply split into two parties after a few years, which would make any two-thirds majority borderline impossible. Then again, something like 46% of Americans currently identify as Independents, so maybe that would keep things running.