How can we clean up the corruption at every level of government?
HAHAHA... go watch “The Wire” and then realize every city is like that. Clean government happens with an angry and informed populace. We live too comfortably to get angry and most people are not that informed.
So our complacency will kill us? Is that what you’re saying?
What’s the end of that? We all know what happened to Rome. What will finally end the USA?
How is government accountability supposed to work? What avenues are we given to demand that our government at all levels be truthful with us?
Seems like petitions, rallies, elections.... don’t make any difference.
I see how Scott Brown is sort of kissing up to Barbara Walters and I realize that once a person has power they want to use it to have friends and be popular. We send decent people to Washington and then as soon as they realize they have power they start schmoozing with the DC press corps and then they become somebody else.
I think elections are viewed too much as us giving them the Ring of Power - the one ring. The danger only began when a person possessed the ring.
I wonder what would happen if we moved the Capitol to the middle of the country in the middle of a corn field - where the trip was not too far away for anybody in the country to make a visit if they felt so moved. Where there aren’t a lot of millionaires or huge companies.
Again, I’m just throwing ideas out. What would it take?