If you had to prioritize one major policy reform to start moving the U.S. toward a social democratic model, what would it be and why?
If you had to prioritize one major policy reform to start moving the U.S. toward a social democratic model, what would it be and why?
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Campaign finance perhaps.
That would be my answer as well. Followed by ranked choice voting during federal and state elections.
So citizens united and super pacs?
Campaign finance was already an issue before citizens united and super pacs. It's an order of magnitude worse now, but just rolling those back doesn't solve the problem.
I heard an idea that I liked. Give everyone the first $50 of their taxes back as a token usable only as a political donation. That would be more than enough money to swamp the political funding that existed prior to citizens united. I'm not sure how it would stack up now, though, and am too tired at the moment to go figure it out.
I've read some on publicly funded campaigns which makes sense to me. Without the repeal of Citizens United, there would still be those types of mega donations but maybe pass a law so that they get taxed to shit and rolled back into the public campaign funds..