Alternatives to congress
Alternatives to congress
What alternative ways can you think of to handle making legislation and passing laws that would negate the increasingly polarized political climate that is happening in more and more countries?
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IMO anything with a direct vote of the people will end up as spending wars between special interests with the funds to advertise.
Seems like campaign finance reform is a more pertinent question then.
Nah, unless you suspend the 1st ammendment, you can't really fix that enough. People will always be free to pay for an ad supporting thier opinion.
You'll probably need to think beyond liberal dogma if you want to solve a problem with liberalism. "Paying for something is speech and therefore unimpeachable" is an insane thing to take as a fundamental element of how society is run when the end result is so obviously and demonstrably the rich using that ruling (which was always made for them) to buy elections.
People want to find some policy wonk solution to these fundamental problems ("Oh! Sortition fixes everything! Wait, maybe a parliamentary system. Ooh, ooh, how about . . .") but they are just red herrings, silly schemes that distract you from critical thought about the assumptions that brought you here.
I hear what you are saying, but that isn't campaign finance reform. Redefining what is protected speech seems like a prerequisite to campaign finance reform. And that does sound like a good idea. It certainly would help. But can it be leveraged to deal with the media which makes money polarizing the issues? If you don't fix that too I am not sure the problem will really be solved.
You still have spending wars. Politicians are bought and sold every day, and any large company probably donates to politicians of multiple parties.
Yeah, it's a hard nut to Crack. Maybe it is just impossible to get the money out of the process.