07-28-2016, 03:08 PM
(07-28-2016, 02:59 PM)masterpanthera_t Wrote: IMO, to achieve that the first thing we need is to get campaign finance reform in place so that elections are publicly funded. Assuming that this gets the lobbyists off of Washington, then we can hope to have "real" legislators in place, rather than businessmen masquerading as legislators.
I have to agree. I know we will never get completely rid of the politics and have statesmen, but campaign finance reform at least creates the potential for our elected officials to actually govern rather than continually running for office. But, there again, one of the policies that caused me to abandon my libertarian ideals. Publicly funded elections and campaign finance reform in general would be antithetical to them.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
