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Trump would have lost the first time the DNC hadn't screwed up the first time by being slippery.
Then the third time around they obviously fucked that up too.

 

That was where money in politics screwed us. Unfortunately people ran on Bernie's platform to gain support, then threw the platform under the bus when offered funding and DNC support (and cabinet positions) to ditch that policy and support Biden's DNC donor friendly policy.

Remove corporate and billionaire money from the system and that doesn't happen, IMO.

 

I don’t see how you can remove corporate and billionaire money from politics at this point.

 

It would take a constitutional amendment. You'd have to put a cap on political donations and require tracking of all donations by candidates.

Then you'd ideally want to encourage every American to donate by offering $100 tax credit that could be donated to any cause. Then you could just log into your IRS page and allocate that $100 to any cause or candidate you like.

That would create over $15 billion per year in donations that would be up for grabs.

*Edit* If you can't get the constitutional amendment (because it's very difficult) perhaps you could just do the tax credit thing to offset the amount that billionaires and businesses are giving. Maybe make it $200 instead.

Or make it exactly offset the total of large dollar donations. So you give a percentage of your allotment to given causes or politicians, and then the amount is calculated to exactly offset the amount of large dollar donations.

 

No way that happens. Congress will want to stay on that gravy train.

 

Certainly, as long as we don't support politicians like Bernie Sanders that will be the case.

We could actually do it without Congress by getting 75% of the states on board.

 

The correct way imo. There was a primary/convention/ and positive synergy. Joe appealed to more Americans thats why he won. It was handled wrong imo this last time around.

 

Unforced Errors.....it happens with all competition.