A pillar of Athenian democracy was sortition: selecting officials at random among a large pool of valid candidates. It can be very effective at preventing tribalism and corruption.
Note that your argument would also hold even more strongly for jury service, and yet we choose juries from a broad cross-section of society, not just those with legal training. The Athenians were right and you are wrong on this one!
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At the very least bring back ostracism. All we need is some broken pottery.
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Hey, I can use those to scrape my boils!
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