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A few options off the top of my head: -fire everyone and start fresh -make political office a job that is randomly assigned to citizens that rotates often -link politicians pay to the average citizens pay and prevent any additional means of income -introduce a big sharp head slicey thingy for politicians we do not like and set it up in a prominent square so they can watch their peers face judgment
In all seriousness, I am not a political theorist by any means, but it seems obvious that we have to prevent the job from being a financial windfall for anyone who gets elected. Prevent big business and the war machine from being able to contribute in any way to a politician. Politicians and their family/friends certainly shouldn't be able to trade stocks. While I type this, everything seems like a generality and also kind of hopelessly optimistic. Helluva Country 'we' have built that is so prepoccupied with profit that it cannot stop selling weapons that are clearly killing innocents.