[lapcat]

> If you select a truly random set of citizens to rule a country, there are no guarantees that you will get a representative sample of the citizenry.

Not sure that's the goal as such. The goal is to have a selection system that's incorruptible.

> Without any further selection, you will eventually (and sooner than you would expect) put terrible or incompetent people in power.

Well, we have that already. I like the odds of random selection a lot better. With the current system, we're practically guaranteed of getting terrible or incompetent people in power.

> I am French, and my country recently made a sortition experiment[1]

150 people seems pretty small. The US House of Representatives has over 500 members.