One thing for which President Obama has been sharply criticized was giving out appointments to people who raised or gave a lot of money for his 2008 electoral campaign. This is the sort of political strategy that has a lot of Americans upset right now. Many people feel that one easy solution to the corruption of our current government is to simply get money out of politics. This will ensure that our leaders attain their power by merit, rather than by monetary prowess. This would mean that our leaders are in politics to serve the common good, rather than to serve themselves. Although it is easy in words, simply "getting money out of politics" would most likely spark a prolonged political battle concerning how to go about this. Though there are most likely many interpretations of "out of politics", here are some solutions as to ensure that our politicians are truly servers of the people.
* set a limit on the amount of money any one candidate can spend on a campaign
* renounce the rights of corporations to be considered citizens
* Presidential appointees should be publicly interviewed and announced
* (as discussed in my previous blog) Do away with the "winner takes all" approach to elections; this would give third parties much greater opportunities, and diversify the voter's options.
Although cleaning up our government will be a long and difficult process, discussion of solutions and the encouragement of open minded conversations are the best ways to get change started.
Yeah I think it would be really difficult to get people on board with that idea. I mean I agree with it, if it could work that seems like a really good idea. I can't help but think though that even if that idea worked and people agreed with it, money would still be heavily involved. Behind the scenes a lot of stuff we don't know about happens in politics, seems unlikely to me that money wouldn't still play a part.
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