"[W]e need to stop simply blaming politicians for our democratic failures. We must face up to the systemic sources of our political problems, and recognize that institutional problems require institutional solutions. We need to adopt the National Vote Plan to ensure the president is elected by the popular vote. We have to pass amendments putting term limits on Supreme Court justices and allowing strict regulation of campaign financing. ...

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"[W]e need to stop simply blaming politicians for our democratic failures. We must face up to the systemic sources of our political problems, and recognize that institutional problems require institutional solutions.

We need to adopt the National Vote Plan to ensure the president is elected by the popular vote. We have to pass amendments putting term limits on Supreme Court justices and allowing strict regulation of campaign financing. We should embrace voting system reforms like ranked-choice voting. The filibuster must go. And we have to make the Senate more representative, or render it relatively powerless like the House of Lords in Great Britain. Such changes may sound radical, but they are already in place in other developed countries, where they are viewed as business as usual in a real democracy."

Authors Website: http://www.wordsunltd.com

Authors Bio:

Marta Steele is an author/editor/blogger who has been writing for Opednews.com since 2006. She is also author of the 2012 book "Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, 2000-2008" (Columbus, Free Press) and a member of the Election Integrity movement since 2001. Her original website, WordsUnLtd.com, first entered the blogosphere in 2003. She recently became a senior editor for Opednews.com. She has in the past taught college and worked as a full-time as well as freelance reporter. She has been a peace and election integrity activist since 1999. Her undergraduate and graduate educational background are in Spanish, classical philology, and historical and comparative linguistics. Her biography is most recently listed in "Who's Who in America" 2019 and in 2018 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Who's Who.