The Crisis in Accountability: Chapter 1 - Term Limits - The Perception vs. The Reality The crisis in accountability is often reflected in the behavior and voting of those elected to public office. Much of what happens is contrary to the interests of their electorate and the Constitution they have sworn to uphold. They do not defend the institution they are in (Legislative, Executive) and they are always defending organizations over the citizen. The solution which most think would address this is "Term Limits". This idea is driven by very popular talking heads with large audiences supporting this as a solution. There is a perception that Congress is made up of folks who can never get voted out. Is this perception accurate or is this a psychology just established by the dialog? The lack of accountability is the disease plaguing government and society in general. The questions not asked or addressed on the issue of "Term Limits". Does any given constituency want to be represented by someone for 2 or 6 years who cannot be held accountable for their deeds because they are restricted from being reelected? Is it "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people" if the choices of representation are being limited or restricted? Recently the question of influence has been the focus of the public dialog. What has not been addressed is the kind of influence and from whom. The Framers design the system to be influenced by the citizen, the constituency. Not political parties, affluent individuals, corporations. organizations. One of solutions to returning representation to the people is to limit contributions to campaigns to only those that can vote for the office being run for. Another would be to allow the constituency of any office to vote the salaries of their representative up or down. Why not both? The link attached has graphs displaying the distribution of tenure in office for both the Senate and the House of Representatives. #TermLimits, #CampaignFinance, #SalariesofTheElectedOfficial, #TheCrisisInAccoutability https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members

Campaign Finance Reform: Are all Voices Equal? Why should one person's voice in the election process hold more weight than a citizen when voting for that office? Why should someone who is not going to be represented by the person in a given office be able to influence the election for that office? Supreme Court has ruled that campaign contributions are #FreeSpeech. However, there are two kinds of speech. #VotingSpeech and #OpinionSpeech. The only form of speech that has power, voting speech is limited one opinion per constituent. It is like money in that it is tangible. Why aren't #CampaignContributions considered voting? Why not limit contributions like voting to only those who are entitled/able to vote for that office? Cap the amount allowed like a vote. This is the #CampaignFinanceReform that needs to be discussed.

Campaign Finance Reform: Are all Voices Equal? Why should one person's voice in the election process hold more weight than a citizen when voting for that office? Why should someone who is not going to be represented by the person in a given office be able to influence the election for that office? Supreme Court has ruled that campaign contributions are #FreeSpeech. However, there are two kinds of speech. #VotingSpeech and #OpinionSpeech. The only form of speech that has power, voting speech is limited one opinon per constituent. It is like money in that it is tangible. Why aren't #CampaignContributions considered voting? Why not limit contributions like voting to only those who are entitled/able to vote for that office? Cap the amount allowed like a vote. This is the #CampaignFinanceReform that needs to be discussed. https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/soros-pours-record-50-million-into-2020-election/

The Crisis in Accountability: C-001 Campaign Finance - Where do the Loyalties Reside? " Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" In this single statement the modern republic was founded. Are the consenting being governed or ruled? Are elected officials loyal to their constituents or the interests of those who provide the funding for their campaigns? To whom are they really #Accountable? Do their actions reflect the actions of a person representing their constituency or something else? It is illegal for any campaign to receive moneys or any "thing of value" from someone who is not a citizen. Yet we allow corporations, political parties, unions, any variation of special interest to provide "things of value" to a campaign. Yet these organization cannot vote. Or are they in effect voting? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30121 #TheCrisisInAccountability, #CampaignFinance

Of all the forms of speech available to the citizen, voting speech is the most important, powerful, and influential. Yet, this form is speech is limited to one citizen per election and only to the constituents of the office to be voted for. Allowing campaigns for elected office to recieve tangable assets (money, peoples time, gifts) from those not entitled to vote for that representation is a disenfranchisment of those who are to be represented. We established the 17th Amendment to manage this issue and all that was achieved was disenfranchising the states authority at a federal level. The new attempt is to invoke term limits which will limit the choices of the citizen. No approach will ever be perfect, humans adapt. However, only the constituents of an elected office should be allowed to contribute to the campaigns for that office. #MoneyinPoltics, #BuyingInfluence, #MoneyinElections, #DisenfranchisingtheVoter, #CampaignFinanceReform https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloomberg-network-climate-lawyers-ag