re: Insanity...

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Ranked choice voting would be much more conducive to promoting minor parties than term limits. But ultimately in order to actually crack the 2 party system we would need a new constitution that does away with first past the post elections and establishes a parliamentary system with proportional representation. Literally zero chance that ever happens though.

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Simple, feasible and valid (proven) way(s) to eliminate the root cause(s) of our fundamentally broken (and therefore corrupt & dysfunctional) political system:

Limit contribution(s) to a candidate's campaign fund by an individual or organization to $100 and disallow commercial campaigning/advertising, including via TV, radio, internet, signage, billboards, etc. Require all candidates to publish their platform, stance on issues, etc. on an official election candidates' website. Limit campaign speeches, debates etc. to publication on one official election candidates' website and public/educational TV & radio networks.

It doesn't really have to cost $Ms to campaign for and win an election. Legislation is needed to eliminate it. Anyone should be able to afford to run for office and win an election. Also, legislate strict limitations on what lobbyists can do. It's needed. Elected officials must become beholden to and truly represent and work for the people who elected them to office, based on their publicized platorm and stance on issues, not the wealthy powerful special interests who made huge donations to put them in office. Our federal government is literally supposed to be "by the people for the people" not "controlled and corrupted by the rich for the rich to get richer, by taking advantage of the people."

Without such reforms, it is a waste of time and energy to even discuss US federal government and politics. (That's why I don't bother with doing it.) Our democratic "system" is fundamentally flawed and the result is an extremely corrupt federal government. It actually is fixable. But it'll be really difficult to get the needed election reform legislation passed. Some other countries have made these kinds of election reforms and it actually fixed their broken, corrupt governments.

The sheeple in the US don't learn anything about this kind of stuff via the mainstream media though. Everyone can carry on being sheeple, wasting time on mainstream media propaganda and debating about corrupt democrat politicians vs corrupt republican politicians (the only ones we can really elect) and the resulting symptoms of their power over you; OR wake up, research how fix the root cause and spread the truth all over the internet. Which will it be?