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Dig you fools!
The Solution:
Demanding from politicians is what the American people have never been skilled at.
Every time it looks like the taxpayers are getting fed up, the politicians make a preemptive strike.
How many times in the past have there been rumblings about campaign money and the politicians come up with a bill to “reform” campaign contributions but later, after all the people calm down and go about their business, we find that they just enabled themselves to take even more corrupt money than before? They won’t fix it themselves.
It’s going to take 100,000 people surrounding the capitol building (and the branches of their underground subway) and keeping the place surrounded. (Yep, there’s going to be logistics.)
They’re going to say it takes time to write a bill to outlaw the acceptance of bribes by politicians but we can’t fall for that again as in the past.
Keep them in the building until they write and pass a bill that immediately bans the acceptance of any money (or any other form of bribery) by any candidate or politician from any lobbyist or other entity with a mandatory prison sentence and ban from holding public office for violation. No exceptions, no waivers and no catchy legalese.
One paragraph could undo decades of corruption but they’re not going to do it correctly unless they are physically forced to in person by the people.
I know, the argument against will be “but then only those rich enough to finance they’re own election will get elected”.
That’s going to be another issue. No more buying of massive airtime and election “Armys”.
As a condition of having a broadcasters license, TV and radio networks can at their own expense provide equal airtime to all candidates. No more million dollar image consultants or commercials that are nothing more than propaganda.
Perhaps a limited quantity of taxpayer funded “position/rebuttal” papers could be mailed to registered voters.
It will take smarter people than me to fine tune this but one thing is very clear, if we don’t get the profit out of politics, we are going to be history.