My solution to the problem of Election Corruption in the USA. What are your ideas?

[Glenn]

This is so very true Greyson. The Supreme Court struck down the campaign finance reform attempts by saying it was ok to donate massive sums to candidates and parties making them beholden to them. If we want to end a good deal of this purchase-able.gov (aka corruption), this must be stopped. I am not anti-corporation. I am anti- disproportionate corporate influence in the political process.

1.Stop recognizing corporations as people..
2. Set up public financing for all campaigns. Do Not allow any donations.
3. Eliminate all non-office professional interaction between lobbyists and politicians.
4. Eliminate revolving door between the lobby and political offices by imposing timeframe restrictions on employment in the respective occupations.

These resolutions were passed in Chicago by more than a 90% vote at the People's General Assembly.

[iamkeri1]

Oh yah - the electoral college - destroyer of the will of the people. How could tthat have slipped my mind?!?!

So many things I don't understand about our government these last few years. Two mind boggling supreme court decisions: First they decide that the innocence of real flesh and blood is not a compelling enough reason to release them from prison, then they decide that corporations 1) are people, and 2) that their freedom of speech (translated as financial backing for a person or cause) can not be restricted

The congress is not innocent either. In the senate, the republicans are blocking almost every bill that gets introduced by threatening to filibuster everything, and the democrats refuse to change the filibuster rules when the new congress begins...mind boggling.
Smooches,
Keri

[Toughy]

http://movetoamend.org/

On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to:

* Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

* Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our vote and participation count.

* Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national, and state governments.

The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule. We Move to Amend.


In addition to the above Constitutional Amendment, I also support public financing of all elections. That means no private or PAC money involved in elections.

[iamkeri1]

Again I can only say mind boggling. The Supreme court used to be an entity I deeply respected. Justices CAN be impeached, pretty much in the same way that presidents can be impeached. Maybe it is the time for that.

I can remember most of my young life seeing billboards postd by the John Birch Society that read "Impeach Earl Warren" (then Supreme Court Justice for those of you who are too young to remember.) so I knew it could be done, but then I looked it up and found how to do it. It takes a two thirds vote of the congresspeople Who are present that day. On a typical day in the house there are less than a hundred people there, so theoretically, it could take only 66 people to oust some of those asshole,

While I am talking about Earl Warren, I just want to point out that he was elected three times to the office governor of California AS A REPUBLICAN!!! And he was nominated by Dwight Eisenhower (who warned us against the military industrial complex way back in the mid fifties.) Yet as Supreme Court Justice, he was one of the most liberal justices in US history. See Eisenhowers warning speech



Two Republicans we could respect, if not agree with. What the hell happened to the Republican Party? Mind boggling!
Smooches,
Keri

[Kätzchen]

Thanks for your thread imakeri1 !!

I’ve written to certain end democratically elected officials in several states to voice my support for :: 1) eliminate the filibuster, 2) eliminate the Electoral College, 3) and vocalized my support for shoring up institutional agencies who are weakened by rogue hiring practices that favor employing racist hateful individuals who are only there to collect a paycheck off the taxed voting base for no job done well that is in the best interests of the American citizen.

If no. 1 and no.2 requests get accomplished I will feel like the correct direction our country should be going in will restore my confidence in safeguarding our social institutions.

Oh, and idea no.4 is to:: make sure elected officials caught upending our lives are prosecuted to the fullest extent of Judicial law by drafting succinct laws and enacting them before it’s too late.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I'd post my fantasy solution here, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal in most states. In reality, I'm with you, Kätzchen.