Reply #47: We are at a point where focusing on electing individual candidates is just not worth it anymore. [View All]

When the system is as inherently corrupt as ours, I'm really beginning to feel that we have to start a movement that focuses ONLY on taking corporate money out of our government.

Lobbying IS legalized bribery (I don't care what any elected Democrat has to say in support of lobbyists).

Public funding for elections. Period. NO outside lobbying allowed per law.

Reduce the campaign season dramatically so that "our representatives" can start to represent our interests.

Paper Ballots. Throughout the entire nation.

Term limits.

These things might actually change this country. I'm having massive doubts that "better Democrats" are going to have much of an impact with the way our government is currently run.

The conservatives in this country think that if the above were implemented that they would win our elections. If liberals and conservatives could ever join together to fundamentally reshape the way this country works THEN we'll see change. And it would be in a direction that the majority of this nation truly does want.