>>3520Most manipulation relies on filtering information and keeping representatives ignorant. Term limits (constantly rotating candidates) and randomness (wisdom of crowds) make this much harder.
People agree with experts when experts agree with each other. With few dozen representatives, there will be disagreement because one or more knows about the issue or knows someone who does.
Indeed also "The Politician" is a very specific type of human. Most humans can be manipulated with concentrated effort, but they lack the specific biases and vulnerabilities politicians already have. They also can't be manipulated without public backlash as easily.
There's a threshold to accepting your first bribe. Average people start believing there should be no bribing.
Manipulation often uses divide and conquer. If evil viziers must start fresh every term, they can't easily turn representatives against each other.
Many views NEVER reach current parliaments. These would destabilize the scene. Since the world is finite, if evil viziers don't want certain discussions and they end up in parliament anyway, repeated over time this hurts the viziers.
Bribe detection and anti-corruption efforts actually hurting you when caught is more realistic in sortition.
Will normies within their first-term accept bribes from entities involved in past corruption scandals?
Is it not easier to just to not to get corrupt? The normie probably is less greedy than the average politican and the decent pay from job + pensions prospect theoretically mean they will be quite well-off.
If then some start to pursue money and some don't, would that not stand off? It takes only a handful out of few dozen who do not need money (maybe they were rich as normies, maybe they are pious (!), maybe they don't see the risk/reward as wprth it) for effective coalitions to form.
Those will in the long run form a group of past random representatives which also has its own reputation to guard and quite lots of inside information.
If you truly did not take bribes AND were a politician, those who took bribes fear you because your ass is covered and you can legally show them corrupt.
Non-sortition makes it easy to brainwash and bribe representatives but in sortition every new term is fresh and it is not at all obvious how evil viziers would be more successful than some natural minimum or limit (few biggest ones' probably will find ways to get their way in specific issues but even then they become vulnerable).