I hate to say this, but I think the only thing that is going to fix this is massive decentralization. Instead of having one large government of 50 states, have an alliance off thousands of county nation states competing for capital and talent. People will move away from the corrupt ones, and they won't be able to finance themselves by co-opting other places to pay for them either through taxes or monetary policy.
Thats exactly what the constitution spells out. Our government was not designed to be what we have today. Infact a normal reading of the constitution makes it clear the concept behind separation of powers is meant to stop an over centralization of power and avoid having a situation where the citizens and even states can't change illegal/corrupt aspects of the federal government, or more recently if a group of states think other states illegally manipulated federal election results in a way detrimental to those that didn't they are suppose to be able to be heard by the Supreme Court since that's the only place they could go.
I go back to FDR although you can certainly go back to Wilson if wish in terms of what presidency set us on this path without recourse. FDR is probably the more significant because of the New Deal and his corrupting of the Supreme Court. His tax increases and muscling in on what should be state authority. Also the fact the CIA, FBI, and the military industrial complex all can traced right back to his administration. Plus we should never forget he had a better and more honest relationship with Stalin than Churchill. Plus he is the only president to serve more than 2 terms and actually was the reason 2 terms were made a constitutional amendment. That last bit is why I'm actually thinking if Trump goes these next 4 years trying to break the centralized control and the corporate money influence he should be allowed to run for a 3rd term because FDR spent 3 full terms and was headed into a 4th giving him plenty of control and time to ruin the Republic by over centralizing the power and strangling the economy with taxes and regulations, and it'll probably take 3 terms at a minimum to correct all that nonsense.
I hate to say this, but I think the only thing that is going to fix this is massive decentralization. Instead of having one large government of 50 states, have an alliance off thousands of county nation states competing for capital and talent. People will move away from the corrupt ones, and they won't be able to finance themselves by co-opting other places to pay for them either through taxes or monetary policy.
Massive decentralization WAS the model for the US right up until the Lincoln progressives killed it with the civil war.
Thats exactly what the constitution spells out. Our government was not designed to be what we have today. Infact a normal reading of the constitution makes it clear the concept behind separation of powers is meant to stop an over centralization of power and avoid having a situation where the citizens and even states can't change illegal/corrupt aspects of the federal government, or more recently if a group of states think other states illegally manipulated federal election results in a way detrimental to those that didn't they are suppose to be able to be heard by the Supreme Court since that's the only place they could go.
I go back to FDR although you can certainly go back to Wilson if wish in terms of what presidency set us on this path without recourse. FDR is probably the more significant because of the New Deal and his corrupting of the Supreme Court. His tax increases and muscling in on what should be state authority. Also the fact the CIA, FBI, and the military industrial complex all can traced right back to his administration. Plus we should never forget he had a better and more honest relationship with Stalin than Churchill. Plus he is the only president to serve more than 2 terms and actually was the reason 2 terms were made a constitutional amendment. That last bit is why I'm actually thinking if Trump goes these next 4 years trying to break the centralized control and the corporate money influence he should be allowed to run for a 3rd term because FDR spent 3 full terms and was headed into a 4th giving him plenty of control and time to ruin the Republic by over centralizing the power and strangling the economy with taxes and regulations, and it'll probably take 3 terms at a minimum to correct all that nonsense.