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Continue abstracting money out. There is no correct solution as the problem keeps evolving. We’ll have to keep addressing this issue over time. 1. Political fi
by runawaybottle 6y ago
Continue abstracting money out. There is no correct solution as the problem keeps evolving. We’ll have to keep addressing this issue over time.
1. Political financing has to be looked into. A solid wtf at Citizen’s United, this must be overturned.
2. I think we can just wholesale ban PACs and Super PACs.
3. Ban donations period. How will the campaign finance it’s staff? You can’t, you’ll need volunteers. Don’t like it? Then don’t run.
4. Ban all ads.
5. Ban lobbying groups.
6. Major legislation must go through a public ballot referendum. Federal legislation must have 2/3s of states approving said referendum. Congress doesn’t work well, so go ahead and draft your bills but we’re going to need to send it back to the public since Congress is always in gridlock.
7. Jail the people that gerrymandered voting districts for 1 year to send a message. Then put a death penalty for all future Gerrymandering violations. A consortium of independent global organizations must assess all redistricting and dole out the penalty for funny business.
8. Somewhat facetious, but we sort of need a death penalty for violations of government duty since the fear of god is absolutely missing amongst politicians.
9. Introduce major major transparency into the Pentagon budget. It’s our biggest expense and we pretty much give them a blank check every year.
10. Federally mandate media organizations to put a parental advisory message on every program that is opinion based or does not do fact checking (and force that label to stay on the screen in a fixed spot on the video or website). Create a new law where rampant negligence of this leads to FCC fines that represent a percentage of all company profit (no fixed fine as we’ve seen large banks able to absorb it as a cost of business).
That’s a good start. We need a Roosevelt-like big stick against some of these things.