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If you want to get rid of cancer in American politics, you need to carve out the whole republican party, the whole democrats party and create a system with more than two parties and actually have a leftist party, as democrats are centrist at best.
Also, no single candidate should be allowed to accept and spend more than 1 million on campaign, otherwise it's just gonna be billionaires running things again.
Federally funded elections. No donations. No fundraising. If you get more than 2.5% of the vote at the local level, you get federal funding of a specific set amount for future campaigns at the level you are at, and one level higher.
Also no lobbying, no superpacs, no tips, and no stock trading for any politician.
If politicians want to give themselves a raise, it is contingent upon them raising the minimum wage at the same time.
Money Out of Politics
You need to abolish capitalism if you want to get money out of politics. There is no way that you can have a system where people can hoard wealth and also have fair elections. Lobbying is legal now, but making it illegal would just drive it underground. The reward for cheating is basically infinite (control of the state) so it basically can't be regulated away.
You're not wrong, but I am reminded of the refrain, "it is easier for most people to imagine the end of the world, than the end of capitalism." The only way I can see is getting to the point that we can abolish capitalists is to regulate them back into "reasonable" (<$50,000,000 total wealth) levels of financial power.
Human history is filled with changes which would have seemed impossible to people living in the world prior to those changes.
We had regulated capitalism in the past, and now we're here. There's no reason to think regulation would work next time around. We need to be bold, outspoken, and uncompromising. The future is ours for the taking. We just need to organize.
When you don't have about 10 parties, your democracy isn't working.
Considering USA has 50 states, there should be about a hundred parties when local lists are included.
Which two of our many territories, districts, and protectorates are you calling states?
Sorry, somehow I once got into my head it was 52. I know it's 50, but continue to sometimes revert. ☺️
yes, just do away with America and replace it with China or North Korea!
EDIT: Lol, tankies coming out
This but unironically
That would unironically make the world a better place