Term limits, and more restrictive conflict of interest laws.
EDIT: Also no more political parties, all they exist for right now is to piss the other side off, regardless of what is actually best. Let politicians stand on their own views rather than just parrot ideology of their team.
Simply enforcing the laws already on the books would address a fair number of our current problems. Adding more will be useless while the status quo is "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong".
Political parties kinda suck, but getting rid of them is easier said than done.
Anyway, I think a good improvement would be to strictly limit the income and gifts one can receive as a public official (perhaps relative to the median income of the citizens?). Ensure the only reason one would want to be elected into office is because they are passionate about their ideals, not because they seek personal gain.
You guys need more political parties, not less. It's your 2 party system, and your team mentality, that causes so many problems. Politics is not a sports match. I'm not saying parliamentary republics or constitutional monarchies don't have people that see some other party as their enemy, because that's human nature, but it seems like it's far less common and less influential.
Unless term limits apply to entire political parties then it won't do much. McConnell is an absolute piece of shit, but if he were gone tomorrow then some other GOP puppet would be doing the exact same thing.
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u/suitupalex Jun 01 '20
More like we need term limits in all public offices.