Sir, with respect, we in the rest of the world known that for the past year. Please try to keep up.
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In a world where targeted strikes against political leaders has been normalized by the president... Heads of multinational corps become valid targets to organizations with sufficient motivation.
The US is creating a more petty, and dangerous world.
What they need is to remove the cancer that is Trump by carving him out. That will save democracy with free elections. Voting won’t help if the voting is cancelled and or rigged
What they need is to remove the cancer that is ~~Trump~~ billionaires by carving ~~him~~ them out.
Don't let "good" billionaires convince you the problem is just Trump.
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.
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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.
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The sky is blue, more at 11.