An Occupy founder says the next revolution will be rural

[Dustlawyer]

45. My 1st suggestion since the corporate owned media has been subverting our country for so long is to

require the TV and radio operators to donate the political ad time as a cost of their FCC license to broadcast. Limit the time frame for political ads to a month out from the election so we don't have to live with the nasty ads for a year or more like we have now. That takes care of the most expensive part of the campaign.
Given all of the self interests that have had the regulatory and tax codes written for them the last 30 years, the cost of the elections for the tax payers will be dwarfed by all of the savings we will have by ending all of the subsidizing of oil companies, offshore tax havens, extreme excess in military spending and the like. We would end the tax loopholes that the Plutocracy had instructed their politicians to pass for them. This revenue that they should have been paying all along would be more than enough to fix infrastructure and education, and will allow us to incentivize green energy as we should have been doing since Jimmy Carter was President.
Most of our countries problems stem from the corruption of our politicians, Courts, and media. If we can find a way to motivate the people (wish I had the answer for this), we can get out and fight with single minded focus for campaign finance reform and publicly funded elections. It will take either a triggering event or a major Progressive leader to push for these vital reforms. In the meantime we elect the usual suspects who are either corrupt already, or get that way once they get to Washington. Very few stick to their ideals and fight the good fight. Elizabeth Warren is an example of the selfless idealism that we need more of. I would encourage all of you to attend town hall meeting and candidate meet and greets and try to elicit a promise to fight for publicly funded elections and campaign finance reform. Politicians should not be out raising money way more than they spend doing the People's business.