The Problem Defined, A Solution Proposed

[osan]

Please pardon me if this has been posted already.

Someone has properly ID'd one of the big problems we face today in our politics: corruption in the form of legalized bribery of the Citizens United type. It seems they have done a respectable job of characterizing it. Take a watch at this:

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Their solution also seems plausible, though I am not enough smart to be quite sure of the soundness of the principle of the mechanics they propose; i.e., how likely it is to work even if participation were sufficient on the part of the average American.

Nonetheless, perhaps it is worth giving a watch to this:



The site whence this idea is represented and where they ask for people to stand and be counted is:

https://represent.us/action/thesolution/

What is the consensus here? Worth putting in one's name, or is this a possible political phishing site designed to take America's political temperature, rectally? I'm not being paranoid - well, not TOO paranoid anyway - just wondering whether the idea is practically sound and whether signing up is a waste of time and a possible exposure to getting oneself on yet another list on which he may not want to find himself.

Opinions?

 

[ClydeCoulter]

Maybe not mentioned in their "ideas", but I have always thought it to be somewhat strange that people in one state/district can donate to candidates in other states/districts. This seems similar to a foreign country donating to candidates in the U.S.

 

[Ronin Truth]

I've often thought that political corruption ought to be a federal capital offense. That may discourage the future wannabes.

The fact that its not SCREAMS volumes.

 

[osan]

Nudge.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Well. One thing that I will absolutely stand by are citizens initiatives. They don't always pass but they are very successful in terms of education. Learning/teaching the legalities and functions of mechanisms that are in place to empower the citizen. At the same time, I've seen a lot of sites popping up that do seem like glorified data mining utilities.