"Incremental change" is a Third Way lie.

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13. We can all wish for change

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The question is how it gets enacted. I have seen no discussion of that on this site, none. Nor have I seen a discussion of particular changes that people would like to see enforced. What I have seen is a singular obsession with the presidency, which is the surest way I can think of to ensure change doesn't come about. Seems to be your condemnation of gradual change doesn't comport with your own actions and priorities. We can all want change. That's the easy part. It's making it happen that is difficult.

So I ask you specifically, what changes do you want to see enacted? How should we work to enact those changes? How will they become policy, practice, or law? Perhaps if you set something specific forward as a goal people can work toward, it might be possible to at least make some progress toward something? If you want some sort of change, wouldn't it make more sense to encourage people to join you rather than simply denouncing people you suspect of heresy as "Third way"? As it stands, this strikes me as a completely hypothetical sort of discussion.

I think the key to lessening the power of big money over our political system is public financing of elections, which can only be accomplished through constitutional amendment because of a series of SCOTUS decisions and the fact that every new campaign finance law is in turn challenged in the courts. I have suggested this goal before, only to have it denounced as Third Way, despite the fact the Third Way think tank has never supported pubic financing. Nor have I seen any politicians endorse it. Absent that change, I think money corrupts the entire process. No president can transform that by himself.
So I again ask you, if not public financing, what change do you propose?