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I'm telling you, do some reasearch on the strong party system. It is a better system than the one we have and could be a better representation of our people.
-Demosthenes
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for elected officials, you are just adding fresh meat to a corrupt and corrosive system. No long term improvement will be made until we reform the way we select and give incentives to those who govern on our behalf. |
It's kind of hard to do that when the corrupt ones are the ones creating the incentive programs and determining their salaries and benefits. Read my quote, I believe it applies to this situation.
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the most direct solution. Read my quote about bringing fresh faces into a corrosive political system. You are just giving the old system new people to corrupt.
We have to change the environment first or we will not change anything and that will only come from the people. Our elected leaders will sell their souls for reelection so they are pretty useless in any reform movement. We the people have to decide this is a priority for us at election time. Otherwise it will never change. |
So how do you change a system that is set up to resist all real change?
-Demosthenes |
I know this seems pretty unlikely, but another guy like Ross Perot (with maybe a little more mental stability) could by the catalyst. We need someone to beat it into the thick skulls of Americans that our current system is set up to give politicans an incentive to screw them. Show them the problem and then show them the solution (campaign finance reform)
Of course it will not be some movement based in deeply held convictions or serious intellectual dedate, but it could still happen along the lines of a mass emotional response or a fad. Heck, if Country and Western line dancing or Disco could capture the imagination of a country, then I don't see why this issue could not do the same thing provided it had the right catalyst.