The fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund, explained.
Sounds like Big Pharma got top fat off those limitless COVID payouts and is wanting more. Don’t know about anyone else, but taxpayer-funded bonuses for multibillionaires isn’t a “crucial” concern for me next year.
Part of the reason why we wheel semi-conscious nonagenarians into Congress to vote on bills is because committee memberships and chair seats are given to people with seniority. So if you can hang onto a seat for a long time, you get a lot more power to determine what comes up for a vote.
If we implemented term limits we’d have to figure out a different way to determine who’s on what committee, at the very least.
Term limits for the house and the senate would be great. Not sure how you’d get them to pass though. They’re all in on the deal. Running as incumbent over and over again just seems to make them more and more invincible with every election.
It is amazing how there is no line that Trump/GOP are willing to cross for this man. I’ve never seen a guy make so many people admit they have no moral backbone at all. Everything they hate and say other groups are he is.
Most Trumpists have been duped by propagandists. It’s more comforting to them to believe the fake news talking points than to admit “their guy” is actually a vile waste of skin.
I think its also that “free speech” has become “you can lie to anyone for any reason and recieve almost no consequences” and in the age where media can be pushed and spun faster than it can be read there’s just no way our existing system can handle it.
This is why there’s a clear parallel to the 1940s where broadcast mediums pretty much did the same thing.
Now everyone has a megaphone and you get extra money if it snags eyeballs.
They consolidate power due to the time they spend in office. It’s incredibly hard to vote out an incumbent. They get the campaign funds because they kiss the right asses of the rich and corporate classes, and that is not serving the citizens.
The solution is term limits, and banning them from working as a lobbyist or whatever.
They get the campaign funds because they kiss the right asses of the rich and corporate classes, and that is not serving the citizens.
That just sounds like a campaign finance problem to me. Term limits are inherently anti-democratic imo so I’d really rather avoid those, but campaign finance reform sounds wonderful.
and banning them from working as a lobbyist or whatever.
A great deal of our system of government is undemocratic. In particular, the difficulty of getting incumbents out of office is undemocratic, and term limits directly address that problem. Even if they’re undemocratic in a vacuum, they enhance democracy in practice.
What if someone retired from politics and then works for Shell and pays for a free weekend getaway to the Bahamas for a Congress member? Or for their “friend”?
Sounds like we need strict laws around what is lobbying
If you can get social security I don’t want you running the country. You got yours, and have no incentive to make it better for future you, since future you is dead.
The whole case was also really suspicious, like the article said. People, including the only reporter who got to interview the woman (over a phone call) wasn’t even sure if the person actually ever existed. Seeing that this is a fairly old article, I wonder if we got any new info on this.
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