3 changes that should have 75%+ support behind them

For some weird reason democrats won't support 2 or 3 at all

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1) Term Limits for all federal office. (And states hopefully follow on state level as well)

2) No more PACs. Or at minimum the PAC has to have to be subject to all the same laws (minimum donation, etc) as the canidate does

3) No out of state, and definitely no foreign money allowed for any canidate. Only exception is the President who is the only canidate that runs a national campaign. But still must be American only.

I could think of a bunch more. But if you go and talk to most people, they will agree with these points, yet it stands no chance of being passed in Congress.

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1) All three of these things greatly benefit the slime in Washington.

2) The slime in Washington has complete control as to whether or not any or all of these things gets submitted for vote, and ultimately passed into law.

3) The slime in Washington know that 100% of the voters could be for these things and all they have to do is drop them a few crumbs like free tuition or lower taxes a little and they will forget all about the fact that the people they voted for don't care about what they want.

America can not vote themselves out of this comeplete shitshow we are in politically.

Voters have no power anymore. They gave all of it away to the corrupt Washington swamp a long time ago.

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well yea. you are asking people of power, to relinquish power, and limit the time they can stay in power....

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We the people do not need their permission to institute Congressional term limits. It could be accomplished via Article V.

The states may convene a Convention of States and introduce Constitutional amendments.

Now, the feasibility of doing it that was is a completely separate discussion, but it is the inaccurate to say that we are dependent on those with power to surrender it.

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For some weird reason democrats won't support 2 or 3 at all

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Neither will most Republicans.

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1) Term Limits for all federal office. (And states hopefully follow on state level as well)

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I disagree with this proposal. It sounds great but without a check on the bureaucracy, we could have a worse problem. I would rather know the devil that I’m dealing with instead of a more powerful, faceless bureaucracy that’s run by people behind the scenes, with no accountability to voters. You basically increase the power of the swamp instead of diminishing it.

What I would change, is to repeal the 17th Amendment and go back to state legislatures selecting senators. I think that would have a more positive effect than federal term limits

I like the first one, but it would be too easy to figure out a way around the second two.

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How about something disallowing federal employee unions?

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100% would support. You know who else was against public sector unions? FDR, the leftist hero, thought government unions was a bad idea and he was right

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I disagree with this proposal. It sounds great but without a check on the bureaucracy, we could have a worse problem. I would rather know the devil that I’m dealing with instead of a more powerful, faceless bureaucracy that’s run by people behind the scenes, with no accountability to voters. You basically increase the power of the swamp instead of diminishing it.

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Is that not what we already have, an unelected faceless bureacracy?

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We the people do not need their permission to institute Congressional term limits. It could be accomplished via Article V.

The states may convene a Convention of States and introduce Constitutional amendments.

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I would love to see this happen, because you would have talking heads on all major networks sky screaming how this is "unconstitutional"