Trump made a big deal out of "draining the swamp" during the election.
So who do you believe will do the best job at draining the swamp in DC?
Trump or Mueller?
Sorry...forgot to add the poll,:lamo
Other people will have to drain the swamp, Trump was just adding his own buddies to the already existing swamp. They did not improve things for the US public, they just improved it for their side of the swamp. The rest of the US and the rest of the swamp was left almost completely alone.
Draining the swamp will have to start with ending big business campaign "funding" and forcing members of the house to get elected every 2 years. Leave them there for 4 years, elect them together with the president and also have senate members run ever 4 years. Stop big business and special interest (and yes, that includes unions, I am not singling out groups supporting the GOP but want it to end for all of the political world). Give each candidate a set amount of money of which he cannot campaign (based on the number of people they represent, to give an Idaho senator who runs in a state with few people just as much money as a senator who runs in say California or Texas is just nonsense, that Californian/Texan has to reach many more people so has to spend more money to make them get their message across).
Only allow television campaign videos for a set number of hours each campaign. Every campaign can choose when they want to televise campaign videos but cannot go over a certain number of hours. The same with radio adds IMHO. Internet can do what it wants as long as people can choose to opt out of those videos.
No dark money and fake money in outside campaign funds to buy more TV time or radio time. Have several live televised campaign meetings for each candidate and have 6 debates for each campaign on local or state television and nothing more. People should not be overtaxed with political adds but with targeted adds for some regions.
No more buying elections, no more groups spending money to defeat candidates they do not like. And no candidate can run more than 3 times, so 12 years and you are of running for a specific office. Now you can choose to then run for a higher or lower office but not again for the same office. The status quo of people sitting in a seat of power for decades also has to be ended.
Sorry, but wide reaching campaign changes and even wider reaching lobbying changes are the only way to defeat the swamp.
These things I mention are completely written to the US situation. In my country stuff like this is not needed. Campaigns here on television last about 6 weeks or so. People usually do not sit their whole lives in a congress and do not have to spend countless hours of their times to get campaign funds and do campaign events, they spend their times doing what is needed, govern and spend times in parliament to work towards solving issues and not in letting the status quo remain because that is something that feeds the swamp time and time again.
In all reality the US house of representatives and the senate are swamps in which each member has carved out his own patch of the swamp, some are deeper into the swamp as others but everybody gets his feet wet in that swamp to some degree.
Just my observation from watching and following the US electoral system and those of Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium. And while it is highly ineffective and corrupting being in that swamp, at least you are not Belgians, because they have a quicksand rather than a swamp
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