Wise Democracy North Carolina has selected a phrase from the nation’s founding documents, and is seeking to make that the end-all and be-all of government. The group “implements Wisdom Councils,” which are groups of twelve randomly-selected citizens made safe and heard by a, no doubt divinely impartial, Dynamic Facilitator who “keeps the group moving forward,” toward consensus.

No process is perfect, and this one has a systematic bias against the working poor. That is, I don’t know anybody who is trying to raise a family and pay their own bills, that has enough leisure time to do stuff like this.