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by thijson 174 days ago
That's because our political system according to the Greeks is called an oligarchy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Most Athenians believed sortition, not elections, to be democratic[12][page needed] and used complex procedures with purpose-built allotment machines (kleroteria) to avoid the corrupt practices used by oligarchs to buy their way into office.