Our elected representatives are lying to us. Daily. All 537 of them.

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11. And mandatory public financing with NO OPT-OUT!

This BS of having a 2 year election cycle for a 4 year office has got to go.

There should be 4 debates for each party to decide their candidate, one each week, televised for the whole nation and voted on one week after the final debate -- no advertising for candidates of any kind allowed, no advertising from outside parties: only the candidate him- or herself can make the ad and they can't go over budget from the amount of public financing.

Then after the primaries there should be 4 debates on Thursday of each of the 4 weeks before the election begins. Voting begins on the Friday after the final debate and ends at midnight the following Sunday. Same limitations on ads as the primaries.

Period. That's about a 2 month campaign cycle and no outside money is allowed, nor any personal money. Public financing only.