So, the 'Is the UK parliament corrupt' topic brought to light a general feeling of 'is there any legislative body that ISN'T corrupt?' and lots of thoughts and general resentment in regards to the attitude of people towards those bodies.
I feel this deserves its own topic, which doesn't have the specific context of the UK, in order to allow a bit more of a freeform discussion of other countries systems as well.
Now, the basic ideas I've seen proposed are something like this, I may have forgotten a few (And, of course, these are within the context of the US political system, feel free to throw in your own or mentally edit the options to make them appropriate to your political system of choice) :
Term limits.
Limiting campaign contributions.
Elimination of money/gifts/whatever in lobbying.
Elimination of 'superparties' (IE: Establish a multi-party system).
Elimination of 'special interest groups' 'political action committees', etc. etc.
Shipping all the politicians to the middle of the Amazon and filming 'Survivor: Congress'.
I believe that covers the basics, although there are no doubt infinite less-widely-held options.
So, what does the backroom think?
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