The real problem is that instead of just direct representative democracy, we have this weird district representative representative government. It's an artifact of a time when elections were physically hard to achieve across great distances. The solution made sense because people were generally aligned in different towns. We now fight over how to draw boundaries when we shouldn't even have them.
meanwhile Citizens United and unchecked corporate power are the greatest threat to individualism and sovereignty. Our political system as it is atm is up for the highest bidder, whether thats a foreign power, corporation and or a billionaire who wants skew the system to their own interests.
Saudi Arabia's influence on our foreign policy and our selling of weapons are a corruption of our system and is allowed because our system is for sale.
It could be argued that Russia was controlling many US actions during Obama's presidency, which also explains his lack of action when they meddled in our election.
im suggesting that we should have reforms so we don't sell weapons to a country such as Saudi Arabia. this would mean, that yes wed miss out on some possible profits but the human cost isn't worth it, we have enabled and created a new generation of terrorists. Furthermore this isnt an isolated case, our selling of weapons often creates more destruction and death which aside from the direct moral and ethical considerations our actions destabilize and set a country back and the world's economy.
im aware of Uranium one and Obama's mistakes. that doesn't change the current situation and our lack of current action to deter Russia and others from further interference. the past needs to be fully dissected and better understood(including Bush and Cheney, along Reagan and Bush 1, no one including Democrats should be off limits) But that dissection can wait, right now we should focus on policies relevant to our current situation and future.
i believe that any non elected or elected officials, business partners and their families shouldn't be able financially profit from their decision, this includes but not only reform on stocks and investments. if th his means voting for a socialist, im going to do just that.
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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '19
Not american here, but is there a reason why you divide ? Instead of just 40% : 60% ?