The only fix for our broken political system is term limits on over single elected official. From president down to town alderman to senators and representatives and every one in between. You get two terms and then get back in the real world with a real job. Unfortunately I doubt there will ever be enough of a revolution for enough politicians to vote themselves out of a cush guvment paycheck.
Term limits won't help much - it'll just created a revolving door of political influencers who have no idea what they're doing.
You gotta get rid of the sources of influence first - end most lobbying, end Citizen's United, outlaw SuperPACs, and publicly fund elections. This way, politicians will have to win on their records rather than their massive war chests.
It would help if there was a 3rd party that was viable enough to threaten take the majority in one or both camerals. It seems that the brand obssesed Americans are a long way from making that a reality. We love to assign blame but the truth is more likely that the constituency is less intelligent than the folks they put in office.
There needs to be a push for ranked choice voting like they have in Alaska and Maine. The instant runoffs will save people a ton of time and money and it will make it so that the two parties won't be able to threaten folks into voting for them because WHAT IF YOUR THIRD PARTY VOTE PUTS THE OTHER GUY IN OFFICE?!?!?
Yep. At some point these politicians need to come out of Washington and live in the real world with the policies they have created. Ban super PACs as well.
Strong agree. Gotta move elections over to being publicly funded and require all politicians to have a cavity search level of tax/income audit every single year.
Few things I've wanted to say on this topic but can't on social media for "reasons". First off all congressman are all garbage.
When our legislature was formed each house representative represented 33,000 people. The number of representatives hasn't changed since Alaska and Hawaii were added. As a result, over the last century, congressional districts have more than tripled in size—from an average of roughly 212,000 inhabitants after the 1910 Census to about 710,000 inhabitants following the 2010 Census. We do not have the same representation we'd did 100 or 200 years ago and that's a major issue.
This should 100% be done. Districts drawn to give one party juuuuuuust enough leeway that they only have to worry about their primary election disenfranchises about 47% of their district and leads to an increase in extremist policies.
No free nation/government, etc... has ever remained intact for more than 300 years. Neither will we. It's over. Don't know what the USA will become, but somewhere between solid socialist and communist state is about right.
This is hilarious because if the ruling on Moore v. Harper goes how I think it will, we're much more likely going to have a Christian Theocratic White Ethnostate. Red state legislatures that have gerrymandred their way into unassailable, veto proof majorities are chomping at the bit to be able to throw out federal election results that they don't like, and the Independent State Legislature theory of governance would give them the ability to do that.
Our system is a joke. We need to get away from two parties but that want happen. There is to much money to be made when you have a bad guy. Democrats suck, Republicans suck, Fox News suck, CNN sucks, daily wire sucks, and so fourth. There is to much money to be made for them to help the common man.
Correct, all of those institutions are awful. We do have a way out that can get bipartisan support and make the powers that be sweat - ranked choice voting like the have in Alaska and Maine. The instant runoffs will save people a ton of time and money and it will make it so that the two parties won't be able to threaten folks into voting for them because WHAT IF YOUR THIRD PARTY VOTE PUTS THE OTHER GUY IN OFFICE?!?!?
Lord knows I only vote D because the right has lost their goddamned minds on many issues even though the Dems are just the party of status quo and keeps their progress to symbolic gestures carried out by geriatrics with a death grip on power.
$500M to set up more abortion clinics in areas needing population control to aid endangered species. Yet Dems saying we need open borders because Americans aren't reproducing enough.
Dems are not in favor of open borders. There were significantly more border arrests and quick deportations under Obama and now under Biden than there were under Trump.
We are already full blown socialist, and have been for decades. What we aren't is full blown despotic socialist.
We're socialist? Could have fooled me. Let me know where I can pick up equitable ownership of my company's means of production.
Government does a thing is not the definition of socialism. I got my Poli Sci degree at State, so if you disagree you are insulting our fine university.
Since I notice the definition slapfight while scanning through this post, let me clear things up for you:
Socialism: Worker ownership of the means of production with a democratized workplace.
Communism: STATE ownership of the means of production with a centrally planned economy.
BOTH abolish the concept of private property (not personal property, as commerce and home ownership would still exist)
Things that are NOT Socialist or Communist: Universal Healthcare, Social Security, Welfare. Those are Social Programs. Socialism and Communism are economic systems. There is a huge difference and just because one side has been forcing the "evolution" of the terms so that the original words have lost all meaning to your average dolt doesn't mean those words don't mean what they've always meant. Your refusal to use them correctly doesn't change that.
I'm not inventing it. I'm using the strict traditional definition, not the modern evolved one that you are using.
No you aren't. According to who?
www.merriam-webster.com
