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• Advocate for public funding of elections. Support candidates who refuse corporate donations. Push for lobbying transparency and mandatory disclosure.

• Policy decisions should be informed by expertise, not just electability. Specialist advisory panels and evidence-based proposals should carry more weight than oratory.

• Proportional electoral systems like STV eliminate the spoiler effect and ensure winners have genuine majority support, already in use in Ireland, Malta and the Australian Senate.

In the end, everything is political. Even not expressing yourself politically is a political expression (and a very strong one). Especially when omission allows oppression to thrive, making your political stance and advocating for it might seem small , but in the long run, it can change everything. Discuss views, use logic and arrive at conclusions.

With that being said, today, the biggest force that shapes politics (in the strict sense of how we the people organise ourselves) is the influence of companies that amass huge amounts of money.

When political parties are allowed to accept private money and lobbying is permitted in parallel to public inquiries, a democratic state becomes impossible. To reclaim power, we must reform the mechanics of voting.

One structural change we advocate for is the Single Transferable Vote (STV):

• Representational Voting: STV provides proportional representation, ensuring parliaments reflect the actual diversity of voter opinions.
• Single-Winner Elections: For individual offices, it acts as Instant-Runoff Voting, eliminating the "spoiler effect" and ensuring winners have majority support.

Currently used in Ireland, Malta, and the Australian Senate.

A second structural change we advocate for is sortition: selecting a decision-making body by lot rather than by election.

A randomly drawn panel of ordinary citizens hears balanced evidence on a single issue, deliberates, and decides. The same principle already underpins the criminal jury (we routinely trust randomly selected people to weigh expert testimony and rule on a person's liberty).

• Representative by design: members are drawn by stratified random sampling, so the panel mirrors the population on age, gender, geography and education. No oratory, no campaign funding, no career incentive distorts the choice.
• Informed, not expert: specialists brief the panel by presenting opposing cases (not a single authority), after which members deliberate in facilitated groups before deciding.
• Decided by supermajority: because a bare majority from a small panel carries little legitimacy, assemblies aim for consensus or a high threshold (two-thirds or more). Where the choice is between several options rather than a single proposal, a ranked method such as STV applies.

Currently institutionalised in the German-speaking community of Belgium (Ostbelgien), the first region to run a permanent sortition body alongside its parliament, and used in one-off national assemblies in Ireland (which fed the 2018 abortion referendum), France and the United Kingdom. The OECD counted 733 such assemblies between 1979 and 2023.