A Random Fix to Polarization

Fixing polarization, therefore, must involve fixing the nomination process. To do this, we need to allow centrist voices to speak. That only happens if we bring down the artificial partition dividing the primary process, cleaving centrists into two non-interacting camps.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/11/a-random-fix-to-polarization/

Tom Murphy is playing on ideas I'd first encountered in this classic and excellent 2014 Aeon essay, "If you can’t choose wisely, choose randomly", addressing sortition and its uses, by Michael Schulson:

https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-randomly

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34682741

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