As we sit in our warming pot content with our warmer
environment, there are some new signs of hope.
There seem to be some movement in the press to educate and
motivate us to do something to stop the warming before we cook ourselves out of
civilization.
Unfortunately, these efforts are not enough.
Our so-called leaders, the ones that supposedly reflect our
needs and desires, don’t.
The truth is that unless they feel threatened with the loss
of their jobs, they will not belly up to the counter and try to turn down the
burners around us. The truth is the problem is the way our political system is
funded.
So long as politicians would rather suck the groins of their
corporate masters, they will never get serious about doing the people’s work.
There needs to be several changes, not necessarily in this
order:
1)
End officially the notion that corporations have
legal rights a people. I don’t care if it is a law passed by Congress or a
constitutional amendment passed by Congress and ratified by the states. It has
to be done.
2)
Create a system of public financing of
campaigns. Ban the notion that money is speech. Ban private contributions to
campaigns. Provide a public fund for financing elections.
3)
Limit the amount a candidate can spend so that
the voter can see who really has the best message and can communicate it with a
limited budget. That is called management.
4)
Limit campaigning to a set time period like they
do in England and Canada so the voter will be less likely to burn out on things
political.
Until we get representatives that work for us and not
corporations and lobbyists, we will continue to have a political system that
would rather let us cook than help us solve our problems.
