Most of our inability is from the wealthy having the loudest voices. Garbage in, garbage out -- if most of the info you use to vote is coming from wealthy people you'll vote for what they tell you to. Therefore bourgeois dictatorship.
If we took money out of politics completely (and I mean more than just campaign donations -- media would at a minimum have to be worker-owned cooperatives like AP, no think tanks with millions being poured into them -- essentially make it impossible for money to buy a louder voice) that would fix things and make democracy work. I don't see it happening without full socialism or something like it though. And it's tough for reformists because the first step towards fixing it would be the repeal of Citizens United v. FEC, which will require an amendment -- without that literally EVERY step we could take in that direction would be a slam dunk court case against reformists.
Most of our inability is from the wealthy having the loudest voices. Garbage in, garbage out -- if most of the info you use to vote is coming from wealthy people you'll vote for what they tell you to. Therefore bourgeois dictatorship.
If we took money out of politics completely (and I mean more than just campaign donations -- media would at a minimum have to be worker-owned cooperatives like AP, no think tanks with millions being poured into them -- essentially make it impossible for money to buy a louder voice) that would fix things and make democracy work. I don't see it happening without full socialism or something like it though. And it's tough for reformists because the first step towards fixing it would be the repeal of Citizens United v. FEC, which will require an amendment -- without that literally EVERY step we could take in that direction would be a slam dunk court case against reformists.