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For real, until we crack down on the corruption there simply can't be any real improvement.
Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
True Campaign Finance Reform would prohibit ALL forms of lobbying, make elections federally funded and limited to 90 days before election day. No PACS, dark money etc. No special interest groups money or ads. No political donations of any kind, from anyone. All money of any kind is is BANNED from politics.
Once money is out of politics, the only political currency will be the vote of the citizens, with each citizen getting a single vote. You are registered to vote when you are born, and it is automatically validated in your 18th birthday. Your vote cannot be removed for any reason, including a felony conviction. Incarcerated prisoners can still vote (if anyone needs political representation, it's prisoners).
Political campaign speech is required to be accurate, and if it is not, a person's candidacy can be removed. Lying candidates will not be on the ballot on election day. An "eating the pets" statement in a debate would lose your candidacy.
Debates will be weekly, will be broadcast on every broadcast network with an FCC license. and attendance by the candidates will be required. Failure to show up to the debate, fail to behave properly, whining about the hosts, interrupting, arguing, etc. and you will lose your candidacy.
A campaign should demonstrate the fitness of the candidate for office. If they can't behave properly and responsibly on the campaign trail, they have no business in the Oval Office.
And this country will never succeed until ALL money is moved from the campaign process.
I think removing money from politics would be a good thing and I think your suggestion are logical and would be a vast improvement to what we have now.
Holding politicians accountable for their policies is a no brainier. So should being disqualified for lying. Every politician should be graded with a report card on how they are doing at getting their policies enacted.
Policies/laws/regulations should also be reviewed to determine if they are having the correct impact, if not they should be repealed or replaced. Without mechanisms like this we never know if the laws we pass are working as intended. We should also always be accounting for negative externalities.
I'm with you on all of that.
Conservatives are always talking about running government like a business, which is a terrible idea. However, there are things we can borrow from the business world, like accountability.
If it's broke, we fix it responsibly, and then make sure the solution is proceeding properly, and if it isn't, we tweak it until it does. We can't keep having massive tectonic shifts in our governmental systems every 4-8 years