{"id":1318,"date":"2020-08-31T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T04:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2020-10-15T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T03:50:15","slug":"fixable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Fixable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All of this was fixable.  The sum total of reforms (a bit simplified, to be fair) is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Limit campaign donations: <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A citizen may only donate to a person for whom (s)he may vote in the next election.<\/li><li>The sum total of donations must be a very small amount, allowing access to any person.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Limit access to lawmakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Every meeting with every individual who is not a constituent must be logged and recorded as a permanent record. <\/li><li>Every meeting with a constituent must be logged, but not necessarily recorded.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>3. A holder of national office must divest his or her holdings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An exception to this is dwelling real estate or small (very small) business. <\/li><li>Real property of little financial value may be retained.<\/li><li>Value of previously held stocks, bonds, etc. would be directed to an anonymous and wide-ranging fund directly proportional to the standard holdings within the US citizenry.<\/li><li>A non-partisan legal and fiduciary committee would review all transactions of the national officials with veto authority.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of this was fixable. The sum total of reforms (a bit simplified, to be fair) is this: Limit campaign donations: A citizen may only donate to a person for whom (s)he may vote in the next election. The sum total of donations must be a very small amount, allowing access to any person. 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}