This video begins by asserting that, due to lobbying and various other forms of legalized corruptions, most people feel that there's nothing that can be done to change things for the better.
Here are a few of the terms used to describe such "legalized corruption":
- Lobbyist Fundraisers
- Revolving Door
- Bundlers
- SuperPacs
- Antitransparency
- ..."literally dozens" of other ways...
The obvious solution is to "make corruption illegal". A proposed "Anti-Corruption Act" has been written and is available at https://anticorruptionact.org/. This site lists three main goals:
- Stop political bribery so special interests can't use job offers and donations to influence politicians
- End secret money so people know who's buying political power.
- Fix our broken elections so the people, not the political establishment, are the ones in control.
To bypass the obvious conflict of interest, such laws might be passed (at state and local levels) by means of Ballot Initiatives, a process by which citizens can force proposed legislation to appear on local and state ballots by gathering enough signatures.
There are more then 22,000 cities in America where we can use the ballot initiative process to pass locally tailored anti-corruption acts.
Here's a link to What's in the Act.
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