According to the ultra far left, these liberals are now the ultra far right:
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🧠 These people are stupid!
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There absolutely needs to be some sort of easily acquirable way to see exactly what who has done, when, and to issue communications with them, resolve conflicts between opposing requests, etc.
I’m aware of sites like govtrack, but there need to be even better.
Agreed. And the old Robin Williams joke that Congressmen should be required to wear their sponsorships on their uniforms, like NASCAR, is actually a great idea (which is why the joke was funny). All donations from all parties to all Congressmen should be illegal. The argument against that will be "Well then we'll only have super-rich people in Congress". But, sadly, we already have that (which reminds me ... all insider trading must be made illegal). If donations are not to be made not illegal, then they must be transparent.
I was going to say, “should be transparent”. They’re already illegal, which is easy to circumvent.
Insider trading seems quite unavoidable, so instead of being vague about what it even is (try asking a lawyer. You’ll die before you get an answer), legalize it, and require assets and certain contracts to be validated in order to have ownership traded on exchanges.
This would probably put Corporations at a disadvantage in comparison to ordinary businesses due to transparency requirements and early announcements of contracts. Would that be an improvement on what we have now?
Yes, all of these issues are "Chesterton's Fence" issues.
If there is a fence there, and you don't know why it's there, don't knock it down until you do.
We need a systems thinker, a lawyer, etc. to create limits for these people with the knowledge of how it works today, and to test any changes that are proposed with "What Could Go Wrong" stress tests.