Poll: 43% of people prefer Athenian democracy

Rassmussen:

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows that 43% believe a group of people randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job than the current Congress. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree with that assessment, while another 19% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

This was, in fact, basically the way the ancient Athenian boule (council) was selected, because elections were considered an aristocratic practice.

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