Stop me if you have heard this one!
seriously, three guys in three consecutive statements solved the entirety of our country's problems.
This is the shortest diary I have ever written and don't suppose anybody will mind too much because it is the total and complete solution to all of our country's problems.
ok, ready?
So the first guy says:
What we need to do is get everybody to vote for challengers, get rid of every single incumbent in office. The design of our country wasn't set up so that career politicians could sit in office for 40 years and get bought out by entrenched power structures.
And then the next guy says:
That would be good but in the end we would still only have the same entrenched parties. The Dems and Republicans are totally beholden to their donors and play to win for themselves. What we really need is a constitutional mandate that would implement a parliamentary system of governance so that when we do vote in new candidates they will share power in coalition between 5 or 7 different political parties.
and the last guy says:
That would be GREAT! but even then, there is so much money in politics, even the new parties are bound to be corrupt. If we don't pass a law that completely outlaws all campaign contributions and ensures only publicly-funded campaigns for all elected offices then it will all end up turning to crap. oh, also the law should say that you can't spend your own money on campaigning since that would constitute a denigration of office.
The three guys toasted their glasses and said. "its good to live on another planet, in a parallel universe".
just so you know,
they own you