Starvos
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As in stands in the United States, the people have no political power on a national or even state level.
The wants and needs of the people are constantly cast aside in favor of pandering to lobbyists and corporate sponsorships.
We have freedom of speech, but we have no right for our speech to be heard.
Our "representatives" must adhere to a strict party line and often must get their funding from one special interest group or another, turning them effectively into bought and paid for shills.
To fix this, we must abolish the congress and the senate and replace it with a People's assembly with higher and lower organs, abolish lobbyist groups, special interest groups and make campaign donations illegal.
Lower the salaries of the representatives down to a level where they can identify with the majority of the people, and have these representatives be answerable to their constituent base.
This is obviously never going to happen in America, because the rich and powerful who run this country would never allow concessions to lessen their influence.
But this is just my way of partially fixing the problem of lack of political power for the masses, within a capitalist system that is.
The wants and needs of the people are constantly cast aside in favor of pandering to lobbyists and corporate sponsorships.
We have freedom of speech, but we have no right for our speech to be heard.
Our "representatives" must adhere to a strict party line and often must get their funding from one special interest group or another, turning them effectively into bought and paid for shills.
To fix this, we must abolish the congress and the senate and replace it with a People's assembly with higher and lower organs, abolish lobbyist groups, special interest groups and make campaign donations illegal.
Lower the salaries of the representatives down to a level where they can identify with the majority of the people, and have these representatives be answerable to their constituent base.
This is obviously never going to happen in America, because the rich and powerful who run this country would never allow concessions to lessen their influence.
But this is just my way of partially fixing the problem of lack of political power for the masses, within a capitalist system that is.
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