Change the Dynamics of Elections: Get What the Public Needs

First: Stop Serving This

Second: Kill, Stuff, and Mount This

Two things are needed to fix our current broken political system because fixing it will ensure that “we, the people,” indeed are able to get the kind of government we want and not the kind that the big moneyed backers tell us what they think we need. 

Those two things right up front are:

(1)  Reform the method of how congressional district lines are drawn rid the system of protecting incumbents and their parties (from both sides).

(2) Shut down or dramatically turn off the massive amounts of uncontrolled money in the system spent in political campaigns. The one that is protected by the courts in the name of “free speech.”

If these two steps are taken and solved everything else would fall into place to favor the people.

Right now the public at large feels helpless and at the mercy of those in office based on the first two items listed above. Apathy overshadows logic. All that first assumes that the “right to vote” will be allowed, in fact restored to pre-high courts rulings that gutted the Voting Rights Act (‘cause now it’s under serious fire with those asinine voter ID laws).

That is why the current equation must change, but probably won't – so, why not?

Short Answer: First, the big interest groups (read: those who provide the trucks to haul the money and in fact, the money) to ensure that those in office are tied to policies they want. Those in office make the rules like a protection racket or some new Bernie Madoff scheme.

Members of Congress surely make the rules, yet they also breaks them and then project a “so what” attitude, daring the public to stop them.

Do not expect those in power shut off the big money or kill the proverbial golden goose that keeps them in power for as long as they choose, and do nothing about redistricting that keeps them in office without much open competition.

Any mindset that thinks differently by any standard or measurement or point of view is patently wrong. Solutions are sorely needed and the key question is how and when?

This post, I think, outlines a clear path to take and follow