I think people tired of the election of the POTUS 6 months ago. What a mess. An embarrassment to our principles. The election is too long, corrupt, and lacking any process that makes sense. When in an abyss such as we have experienced, we fail to see he simple solutions for the next election cycle. Here are a few suggestions.
1. Shorten the vetting process: Do we really need 2-3 years of vetting. In some cases, it starts after the election ends. The new criteria is to shorten the election process to 10 months as originally intended.
2. Publicly funded elections: As crazy as this might sound, the time has come to publicly fund elections. Politicians are bought and sold by fundraising. It would be great to free our leaders from the chains of donations to their campaigns.
3. 1 month ban on vetting by the media: Too often, as we have see, the media holds on to stories for years for the benefit of the other candidate. To clear up this mess, new stories have to be limited to platforms during the final month or months of the election process.
4. Media Bias: Contributions by media personalities to the candidates is dangerous. The same for the corporations they work for can be said. Banning donations can free the media from scrutiny, and help the American people trust our news organizations.
5: PAC ads: Negative advertising needs to be replaced by platform discussions. The political action committees know how to tweak public opinions with distortions. This is not good for our democracy.
There are many more changes that are needed. We need to start somewhere, and we love things to have a number to them. Why not 5 changes to start? The impact would be immediate and return the election process to the people.
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