Campaigns Can't Get Worse, Can They? | Reason Roundtable | May 13, 2024
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman conjure up a few changes they'd wish to see in the vain hope of improving U.S. presidential campaigns and consider the Biden administration's threat to cut off arms shipments to Israel.
00:00 - Desirable presidential campaign reforms
23:00 - Weekly listener question
33:20 - FreedomWorks is disbanding
49:34 - This week's cultural recommendations
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Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
As the Secretary of the LP platform committee. I appreciate the support for platforms Nick.
Whenever we think that it can't get worse . . . . .
If one thing is for certain... it can, and will, get worse.
Matt Welch > Matt Walsh
At least Matt Walsh doesn't support military aid for Israel. Ironically...
What is a Matt?
At least here in Texas, the League of Women Voters sends a handful of questions to every candidate and publishes the answers. Not all of the candidates answer, but it is so helpful to figure out which of the million judges to vote for.
54:50 “He was wrong about Steely Dan”. very much so.
What The Hell.
I propose the elimination of the "traditional" presidential debates, in favor of a live podcast, in which three or four presidential candidates are arranged around a coffee table, in an adequately lit room, sitting in comfy chairs with drinks, for two to three hours. There are no preset topics, no teleprompters, no briefing books, no bright lights, no podiums, no time limits, and absolutely no celebrity "journalist" moderators. After three hours it should be obvious which candidates are serious and which are fools, which have confidence in their own principles and which are unprincipled posers.
While we are at it, this model could serve to replace all campaign ads. As an aid to making this happen, we could tax all campaign ads at 1000%. We could put all the proceeds from this tax in an escrow account, to be used to reduce the national debt, once we have four years of a balanced budget.
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Israel is NOT a defense ally Nick. There is no MDA & Israel is not party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty either.
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My reforms to elections:
1) Constitutional amendment banning partisan gerrymandering. Thanks to computer-aided mapping and demographics, the politicians pick their voters, nowadays, not vice versa. There's multiple proposed solutions out there, almost any of them are better than the status quo.
2) Ranked choice voting which includes ending primaries. Time to stop letting a small and extreme subset of the population pre-filter our candidates.
3) Constitutional amendment restoring the separation of powers. The executive doesn't get to change what is legal by calling it a different name like 'regulation' or 'executive order'. If it changes what is legal, it's a law. If the executive agency wants to recommend a change, no problem. But it's not law until congress votes on it.
4) Either end the electoral college outright or at the very least make apportionment of the EC votes proportional to voting results in the state so that there's more states that can affect the outcome of the election while still giving less populated states a little extra weight to improve their odds of being heard.
5) New laws mandating disclosure of tax returns, putting wealth into a blind trust, and participating in public debate forums overseen by the justices of the supreme court as moderators. This applies to ANY federal elected official, not just the president. Well, the scotus debate thing obviously only applies to the President.
6) I like Katherine's 'no rules' money approach. I for one think money changes campaign results alot less than we think. The problem is that politicians ALSO think it has a huge effect and so alter their behavior to attract money.
7) Constitutional Amendment to get some variation of the Buffett Rule. Balance the budget or you become ineligible to hold federal office ever again after the end of your current term. The amendment should be agnostic on whether you balance via higher taxes or lower spending, but balance it or you're out. And it has to balance IN PRACTICE, not on paper. Some high bar escape clause in case of emergency like a pandemic or war or depression. Say...3/4ths of governors certify a state of emergency.
8) Too many states are too large, and therefore too powerful. Any state with more than twenty total congressional reps and senators should be subdivided to get under 20. Right now, this means CA, TX, FL, NY.
9) The Presidency is still too powerful, even after #3 on my list. Split the Dept. of Justice/Treasury off into a separate executive lead by the Attorney General. The President retains control over foreign policy and retains the veto. Elect them in alternative 4 year terms with elections every two years.
10) All federal laws have sunset dates and must be periodically extended or they get automatically repealed. 10 year maximum seems good to me. If it's important, congress will extend it. Note - the speaker/majority leader CANNOT prevent or delay these votes and they CANNOT have amendments attached. You either extend it or pass a new law with whatever change. These are straight up or down votes to say "Yeah, that law is working great and is still relevant to the modern age."
11) FOIA 2.0. We need a FOIA update that makes disclosing govt documents an automatic 'push' type of activity rather than requiring someone to explicitly ask for what they may not even know exists. Obviously, we don't want every email or Teams message, and things that are legitimately classified or have PII in them need special handling, but as a general rule, anything FOIA-able should be automatically put onto a searchable public archive.
I'm realizing that some of these aren't about elections. So I'll shut up now.
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I almost always find Sudermans segments FASCINATING... IF often irritating. This is a good thing.
But never have I listened and thought... "There is absolutely no good reason why I have spent any time listening to this".
Today, this nonsense about 'delightful' future AI matchmaking, and AI candidate avatars prioritizing pdf policy point listing...
(Nick G. "don't we already have that?", I would have said "couldn't we have just don't that without ai?)
... Has me seriously questioning my judgement in general, and specifically the choices I make about what podcasts I listen to REGULARLY.
Woof.
I’m so scared for America. It feels like we have a choice between Nero and Caligula.
There are more than 2 choices
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Voters should be ashamed of themselves
Lol yes all 150 million of them
Katherine Mangu Ward reminds me of Mango
I picture her going to town on an apple with those formidable choppers
Nick Gillespie trying to make another right wing grifter happen. Predictable as ever.
Georgia is in play? Same Governor Kemp, same Secretary of State raffensperger, same voting machines..... you're just so cute🤡