Hello Flash,
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Flash
I'm not familiar with any public funding laws ruled unconstitutional (could you provide information)?
As a matter of fact, we have had public funding of presidential nominations and elections since 1976. All candidates accepted public funding for the general election until Obama. Now, candidates do not use it because it limits spending too much and candidates can raise and spend much more if they do not accept the funding.
I agree most of these measures would accomplish little. The most powerful group in the U. S. (AARP) lobbies Congress but is a non-profit and cannot give campaign contributions.
Some states have term limits for legislators and the result has been power shifting to lobbyists, staff, and the executive branch because of inexperienced legislators.
Fiddling with mechanics does not change human nature.
What do the American people want that politicians are not giving them? The public seems very split about what they want.
Most laws regulating campaign finance, etc. do not work because they are based on false assumptions.
Can we agree that legal corruption makes Congress ineffective and tainted?
And then I suppose the only thing we really disagree about is that I think something can actually be done about it and you think it's hopeless so we should not even try?
I would ask if you have ever considered the macroscopic view of this and wondered how big change such as women's suffrage ever came about.
That too seemed hopeless to many.
And change did not come from the powerful.
It came from the people, and it took many many years.
It happened from the bottom up.
Just like this proposal.
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