CAN CONGRESS BE REFORMED?        Anyone with a thimble-full of political or any other sense can readily determine there is no way to fix America unless the influence of big money is eliminated from the political process.  Any other plan is mainly a big waste of everyone's time, if we don't as all-partisan citizens, regardless of religious, moral, political, sexual, social or other persuasion, rise up and demand the complete elimination of bribery from sea to once shining sea.        Do-nothing Democrats and their fellow do-even-less Republican soldiers of corporate bribery and public treasury thievery, have together presided over a tsunami tidal wave of massive giving to the rich and taking from the rest of us corruption, no doubt unprecedented in the history of human civilization.  For example, in the so-called "dark" ages, it was often a capitol offense to charge greater than 5-6% interest.  While just recently it was announced by U.S. media that major banks are now getting into the paycheck advance scam-the-least-among-us business, charging up to 365% interest (and no, that is not a typo).        Rather than helping average Americans, Congress has engaged in endless bend-over political charades, increased rather than reduced troop levels and war funding and signed away even more of our quickly evaporating rights.  And since 2008, they have sold our children's future down a no-strings-attached, pollution filled golden-platter river of unprecedented corporate bailout corruption, re-writing of tax codes and relaxing of regulations, to increase the wealth of the good ol' boy and girl billionaires club at the dire need expense of the rest of us powerless pawns of corporate global chess.        Because the Supreme Court will always otherwise, declare any and all manner of corruption-eliminating reform “unconstitutional”, ¹  the only peaceful way to get rid of big money influence is by constitutional amendment.  Attempts at other methods of reform have succeeded at nothing except leaving behind a long historical trail of tears of utter frustration and defeat.        We need an amendment making it punishable by life in prison without parole, for any organization, group or other collection of people of any kind, for any reason, to contribute one penny or anything of higher value, to one small-town city council office seeker on up to president of the United States.  And we need to limit individual contributions to 1% of the median income per candidate per year, including use of their own wealth by candidates themselves; approximately $500 in 2012 dollars.        In order to be licensed for broadcasting on what are theoretically “the people's” airwaves, we need to require all radio and television stations to grant free equal airtime to “qualified” candidates; such qualification determined by obtaining a specified amount of signatures of registered voters; such specified amount determined by office and number of people represented.  And, we need to eliminate the electoral college and elect everyone by popular vote, hold all party primaries on the same date and require a verifiable paper trail.        There is much tweaking necessary for the amendment proposed here, but this sketch outline is sufficient to grasp the basic idea.  No law will eliminate all political avarice, but what is suggested here would eliminate well over 95% of the current corruption problem and, would allow the majority of we the people to actually have a voice, which of course we have never had since 1776 and the first malfeasant crop of big business butt-kissing compatriots in crime gained control.        Will the bottom-feeding, side-winding, flip-flopping, malevolent, miscreant, slime-ball, corporation-puppet, juvenile delinquent, overtly treasonous, reprobate bastards, slithering through the treacherously nefarious snake-infested hallways of Capitol Hill, ever be arrested, bound and gagged and, placed on a one-way starship headed for a galaxy far, far away, where they can be bribed by wealthy earth-based fat-cats, aristocrats, Democrats, right-wing cats, scaredy cats and other corrupt cats no more?       You decide. 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