In eality, yes, that works. But individuals vote, not corporations. WE are responsible for who is in office.
But saying that does nothing to address how nearly impossible it is for someone to get elected by the public just magically identifying a 'good candidate' outside of the system we've created of expensive campaigns. A few can be, but it would take a majority. It's amazing we even have the hundred progressives we do.
The problem was made pretty clear in California when we had a special election for governor to fill it after a special interest campaign got the governor recalled for not supporting a corrupt Enron deal. There were over 100 people who ran. Who did the state pick? Arnold Schwarzeneggar, with his name recognition, who could go on Jay Leno's Tonight Show. He was a terrible governor. How would one of those hundred get voters to say 'vote for that one'?
That voter who just "sees media" should give two hoots and go a tad beyond that in his involvement----if not, then they get exactly what they deserve. Will it "solve" anything?? No. But I am just arguing here. The fault lies with the person in the mirror-----and the cure doers too, Just takes one leader to rally
We have created a corrupted system and not a solution. You can blame the voters, but does that fix it? No, it leaves you with a mass of citizens dissatisfied with our system, not caring about the democracy that brings them corruption, easy to get angry and supporting anything - like an imbecile saying he's against the system and will 'drain the swamp', con man trump and hundreds of members of Congress who support him to win elections.
You might think we should try to fix the system, and that's where the corrupt gaining control of the Supreme Court to make the corruption into protected constitutional rights pays off for them. What are you going to do to that? Have a 'revolution'? That's nuts - and even a peaceful responsible political revolution is what Bernie tried, and voters were too scared to vote for him, twice as he faced things like a media blackout.
Are you getting my point? Let's say voters agree with you. Then look at how trump was able to win running on a PHONY version of what you say - portraying himself as the 'outsider' who would clean up government and how the billions in free publicity he got helped him fool much of the country. How money lets phony 'fixers' beat real ones by paying for their publicity and attack ads.
That's how you got the country supporting Bernie's policies, but not electing him. We're just trying to prevent it getting even worse - as the Republican Party tried to overthrow democracy and is still trying to, much less get voters to somehow 'vote better'. We have allowed the system to be corrupted by money, and need big reforms it's hard to find anyone even talking about. We can't even pass things like anti-racism in voting.
It seems that perhaps 40% of voters are totally vulnerable to the right-wing media messaging. If your request for voters to do better would happen, wouldn't the Republican Party now be gone, after trump and most Republicans supporting a coup and the other corruption? And yet they're very likely to take control of at least the House from Democrats and Biden is sitting with low approval ratings.
The good news is that it isn't higher than that 40%, and Biden was able to eek out a win and Democrats a razor thin majority, in a backlash to trump with disasters like Covid and an economic crash hurting Republicans. That isn't much.
I've had an idea to try to get publicity for candidates who don't take the corrupt money - but I didn't even get a reply from a 'democracy advocate' when I e-mailed them about it, Lawrence Lessig. For now we're battling between voters who do try to 'vote better' and the power of money just trying to keep democracy at all as it is under great attack.
The country should be shocked by the fact that hundreds in Congress voted AGAINST accepting the legitimate election results in 2020 - a direct attempt to overthrow democracy - for totally corrupt reasons that were lies. And yet, there's really not that much reaction. Just a 1/6 commission who will report what happened in detail at some point.
And that's just one incident apart from the ongoing corruption with billions of dollars running the system. Rome wasn't able to keep their democracy; China is at war with the idea. Hong wasn't that different from us except they had nearly 100% fighting for their democratic rights - and lost. We have a big challenge just trying to keep Americans supporting democracy, incredibly.
