[andrei_says_]

“Now”? Seems like this has been going on for a very long time.

We started paying attention now.

As for the US gov and institutionalized corruption I highly recommend Lester Lessig’s work around political donations reform as the first step to democracy in the US.

We the people and the republic we must reclaim is an excellent summary of the issue and the solution: https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...

[dantheman]

How about something far simpler - reduce to the us government to only enumerated powers. If they want to do something not enumerated pass an amendment.

[mschuster91]

That would just end in a situation even worse than now - such a policy requires a government in the continental European parliamentary form to make sure the government always has a parliamentary backing.

[nradov]

No, actually it would be far superior. We should strictly limit the power of the Federal government to what was actually intended by the Founders instead of using the Commerce Clause as a loophole. Devolve everything else to the several states.

[krapp]

We tried that. It was called the Articles of Confederation[0]. It was an unmitigated disaster, and the reason we have our current Constitution with power actually consolidated under a Federal government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation

[tebut]

Yeah it turns out humans are mush and goo seeking to survive and propagate

When exactly was this magical past where things were better, I wonder?