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Usamnesia's avatar

I suspect in keeping with the transition of uniparty to full scale globocap there will be little if any criminal cases brought forward by the new administration. The crimes of the past are rarely accounted for by national kabuki political theatre. As long as no one gets convicted and serves real time….the system rolls on where justice is realistically just-us.

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Cheryl's avatar

Don’t forget. Trump got elected with record votes. We voted for a conservative house and senate. Make no mistake. The Republican Party has changed. Conservatives have the power and they are now in control because we put them there. One reason we put them there is that we want scorched earth. We want theses megalomaniacs who’ve gotten wealthy off of our hard work to pay and pay bigly. It remains to see if they hear us

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Mary Anne's avatar

Let’s hope they all hear us!!! I do think term limits need to be put in place. One of the reasons against TL is it takes years to know the ropes, seriously slow learners need not apply! Once in office the “public servants” end up spending time & money amassing fortunes for their pockets and election campaigns. We certainly are not getting enough bang for our bucks!

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Martha Montelongo's avatar

Things went from bad to much worse in California once we voted in term limits. The good guys are always far outnumbered in the legislative bodies, and the bigger and stronger the blob grew, the more corruption at the election boards and administrative offices, the more uninformed, brainwashed or just plain corrupt candidates paraded in and out doing the bidding for the deep pockets that bought their elections and owned them.

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Martha Montelongo's avatar

What we have had since term limits was the removal of more principled left leaning politicians replaced by rabid strident partisans who serve NGOs and Public Employee unions, and give cushy jobs to neerdowells and charlatans like the one who invested and lost mass amounts of our Public Employees Retirement funds, to be covered by us, the sucker tax payers.

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Martha Montelongo's avatar

Maybe financial blind trusts for all elected officials and their spouses and review of windfalls of wealth befallen on any close relatives would be more effective?

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Mary Anne's avatar

Thank you for your response, I was not aware of how the term limits have turned out in California. I am older & have watched well intentioned people start out working for us, then after a term or two the emphasis changes & the grift begins. What if the election process changed & candidates got equal shares to spend from a taxpayer funded account? All private funds could be outlawed or added to the group fund. Politicians would have to run on what they are doing for their constituents. Haven’t really thought this out but it levels the playing field and eliminates civil servants being bought and sold. It would cut extravagant spending and time wasted as the lawmakers stump for money. Put our ideas together we could keep our elected representatives honorable.

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Martha Montelongo's avatar

Government dollars going to support politicians’ political campaigns would only grow the cost to the taxpayers. Pac money makes it easy for special interests to bypass individual limits on campaign donations. That’s a huge unfair advantages to incumbents and bought politicians.

Low hanging fruit for improving election results would be to reform voter laws that reduced and deterred fraud and that restored confidence in voters so more actually voted.

To restore faith and thus, participation in elections in California:

1) Require voter I.D. Everyone has an I.D. Even drug addicts who live on the streets, if they’re receiving monthly public assistance and EBT funds have I.D. It’s racist to argue that requiring voter I.D. is racists or discriminatory.

2) Eliminate Motor voter registration that happens when ever anyone applies for or renews their driver’s license, automatically mailing out vote-by-mail ballots to everyone.

3) Eliminate vote-by-mail as the rule for everyone, use paper ballots and end wide spread adjudication of ballots.

Early voting starts a month ahead of election day.

4) Stop accepting ballots that are not postmarked or that are not received by election day. In California, counting of all mail in ballots goes on well into the following month of December, whereby candidates who won on election night end up declared losers to their opponents who win by a razor thin margin, a month later.

5) Follow the law and clean up the voter rolls so that voter ballots are not mailed out to dead people or people who have moved.

If these issues were reformed, we would restore faith in elections by greatly reducing abilities for fraud and this would increase voter participation.

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