Good Ideas For Fixing Our Broken Elections System

I got some good input from a friend on Facebook about my ideas concerning the problems we have with elections and reforming our political system outlined in the following two articles.

How the Democratic Primaries Were Rigged

Corrupt U.S. Political System Badly Broken, Needs Reform

Ded's comment was extremely helpful. She brought up a really good point about C-Span. The following is my reply, which attempts to solve another problem. May the universe grant me presence of mind enough to help out with these very important issues.

"Deb Johnson, I believe the manipulation has gone on since Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic party, and probably even before the Revolution. I believe the things of which I spoke, which I seen in New Mexico, are common practice in all states. I also believe that most if not all, and certainly both the two major parties, do pretty much the same thing. All this has only came out this year because of the people's massive involvement in the political process last cycle, which was fueled by social media. People started seeing something was seriously wrong with the system. Many of them really didn't know what to do except sound the alarm. Many of the citizens had an idea something was wrong, but couldn't put their finger on it. The broken system has helped the Russians with their efforts at meddling. Commercial media hasn't been helpful either.

Speaking of commercial media, they created a circus atmosphere fostered by the motivation to cash in on the political process. In an effort to bring interesting stories to the fore, in an effort to get viewers, which translates into sold commercial air time, they looked for the sinsational. Some of the sinsational was right out of the Kremlin.

Because of the way our media has ruined presidential debates with sensationalism and the way they all salivate over political dollars, selling commercial airtime for commercials to anyone who will pay, and helped out by Citizens United on that, I had come up with the solution of C-Span to air all debates, and political campaign commercials having to be produced in C-Span studios. It hadn't occurred to me the issue of not all people being able to view these things if they couldn't afford cable TV or internet. A remedy comes to mind that some people (media) will not like. They probably wouldn't like any of these proposals about C-Span anyway because their political money well would dry up.

The remedy would be to commandeer commercial airtime for the airing of these C-Span hosted debates, and the airing of the C-Span produced candidate commercials, during a time when the most people could view them. The electromagnetic spectrum has been deemed to be the property of the people so the FCC licenses bandwidth to media companies. Part of that license should mandate that the holder provide the time necessary. The precedent has already been set.

"In 1990, Congress enacted the Children's Television Act (CTA) to increase the amount of educational and informational programming for children available on television. ... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted rules and guidelines to carry out the CTA's educational programming mandate." https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/childrens-educational-television

Also public broadcasting would be employed for the airing of these C-Span produced political products.

Thanks for pointing that out. I wish more people would point things out like that. We need things like that pointed out by people who recognise a problem. Then they or other creative people can attempt to find a solution. We need creativity and insight more than ever now."