Brett Hennig - The End of Politicians

The state of modern politics in the western world is in disarray. There is a better way.

Can we do democracy differently? Brett Hennig, founder of the Sortition Foundation and author of The End of Politicians: Time for a Real Democracy not only thinks so, but he is helping to demonstrate how sortition, random selection of representatives, can improve how we choose our decision-makers and do democracy differently.

Is humanity stupid? Can we collectively make clever decisions? Or is there no hope? Take fourteen minutes and watch this video, the second of his two Tedx Talks.