Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "It’s Populists Versus Elitists, Not Left Versus Right" video.

  1. public financing (aka "Democracy Dollars") + overturning Citizens United, Buckly v. Valeo, etc. + a Constitutional Amendment to get money out of politics
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  2.  @satagaming9144  There is more than 1 way to pass a Constitutional Amendment. People-driven organizations have been working on calling a convention to pass a constitutional amendment and that's just one of the ways it can be done. Once you have a POTUS that is willing to organize around the concept, it is absolutely within the realm of possibility. This is the only concrete way to get money out of politics. Acting cynical and giving up on all those things before a POTUS is even elected (that supports ending legal bribery) is just accepting corruption in politics by default.
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  3.  @satagaming9144  Going back to my very original post, the idea behind what I'm talking about is first you implement public financing aka vouchers (Washington state does it right now), this gives average people vouchers to spend on elections on their preferred candidates, which will begin to counter-act big money in politics at least part-way. This is a stepping stone to get to partially more clean politics (you haven't taken the money out completely so it will still have legalized bribery and tricks played in politics). Once you have more people-powered elections, you can start to implement reforms that remove corrupt money from politics, for instance stopping the revolving door and putting massive restrictions on lobbyists, but what will also be much closer to being achieved is passing a Constitutional Amendment that says to get all the money out of politics, the legalized bribery, the corporate special interests, etc. This leaves the only financial source for politicians as public financing and politics that is entirely driven by American citizens. A Constitutional Amendment would also likely overturn Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United and Buckly v. Valeo since they're in direct conflict with a Constitutional Amendment against corporate money in politics. There are ways to overturn them without the Supreme Court's judgement, but even if these court cases could not be overturned using policy, a Constitutional Amendment and public financing still ensure that new SCOTUS picks will be totally worker friendly and judges picked by the people instead of by Goldman Sachs. If you don't get it yet, the issue I'm laying out is a step-by-step plan to remove the money from politics.
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