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How to Cut Election Financing
Hint: We must redefine “democracy”
So many American political writers clamor for “campaign finance reform.”
They have been clamoring for years. Years. Years. Yet nothing is being done. Is anybody not seeing anything wrong here? Like, we, the people, should be in charge?
Canada has reasonably sensible campaign financing laws. Could not the USA use Canada as an example?
Yet the influence of big money in Canadian politics is still around. Maybe not to the same degree as the USA. But there are favors being exchanged between the donors and the players. Canadian election campaigns still need money. Whether the favor is for $4,000 or $400,000, it still counts as a favor.
I have a solution to reduce those favors to zero. Absolute zero.
Let’s build the TDG
TDG is my alternative democracy. Elections cannot be won by expensive campaigns, which later turn into favors. Here’s why:
The TDG electoral structure is granulated. Instead of electoral units of 40,000 residents or 100,000 or 500,000, the TDG has units of about 200 residents. Now that is pretty radical, right?
I call these units “neighborhoods.” Most likely, the boundaries of each neighborhood would reflect a…
