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Copyright 2020 Isaac Benson Powell
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher.
ISBN 978-0-9861653-1-3

Dedicated to tank man.

Changes from previous version of this book.

The title of this book is Corruptocracy , but the original book (published in 2015) was called Corruptocracy and Other Bullshit . The name change is mainly due to Google not allowing the book title in its advertisements, which greatly affects the ability to sell it.

Five years passed between the original book and this one, and there are a couple of changes between the two, but no chapters were added or removed.

There were many new chapters I thought of writing, but figured if I did that, people would expect new books with new info every few years... and that is not what I intend to do.

The original book was well written, and made its point. This version is more advertising friendly, and has a few adjustments here and there.

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[1] Corruptocracy

Once upon a time, on the North American continent of planet Earth, there was a country called The United States of America. This country was created after its people got tired of having a king on the other side of the ocean telling them what to do and how much money to give him. This person became king not by doing anything particularly special, but rather just because he fell out of his mothers birth canal and lived long enough to assume the crown.

George, Thomas, Benjamin and a few other people decided they couldnt take the kings bullshit anymore and decided to break away from him. However, replacing one king with another didnt seem like such a bright idea. So they thought long and hard about how to create a government which would actually represent the interests of the people, and not just the interests of a king or other wealthy individuals.

They decided to try out the idea of democracy, where the citizens (not women or slaves) would get to vote for the individuals who would govern over them, and they would have elections often enough so nobody would govern for too long (like a king).

...and the people lived happily ever after. The End.

Unfortunately, what these well intended people created was a corrupt version of democracy, I like to call corruptocracy.

These Founding Fathers, as they are often referred to, wrote up a Constitution, which would serve as the blue print for how the country would be governed, how elections were to take place, etc... WHAT these Founding Fathers intended to do, is MUCH more important than HOW they chose to implement this democracy.

The Constitution is not that different than the design of an automobile, and the portion of the U.S. Constitution where it describes how individuals can be elected to office is as poorly designed as a car that catches on fire when its involved in a minor fender bender. A re-design of this part of the Constitution is needed so bad, that NOTHING else is more important. Without a change, you really are not any better off than people living with kings/queens to rule over them, as you dont really have a democracy of the people. What you currently have is a system that ONLY represents the wealthy. Sure, when they fuck up really bad with some new law, tax, or invasion of privacy and piss off the general population bad enough, these corrupt politicians know to back track a little, but so do most kings and queens, at least the ones that like their heads attached to their bodies.

So, what is wrong with the way we currently elect our overlords? Money in the election process! The political leaders of The United States of America are corrupt to their very core, and I can prove it with a simple analogy.

Lets say you are driving down the road one day and get pulled over by a police officer for speeding. For one reason or another you really dont want a ticket and offer the police officer $50 to let you go without one. Offering money to a police officer to change their behavior is considered a bribe (and is illegal). If the police officer accepts the money, I would consider him/her to be corrupt.

The same thing occurs in the political election process of The United States of America. However, instead of being called bribes, theyre called campaign contributions. They really are the exact same thing though. People give money to politicians as campaign contributions and in return they expect the politician to support their cause. This creates a system where money drives the decision making process of politicians, and that is corruption. Instead of $50, politicians deal with millions of dollars to get elected.

Solution: Money-Free Election
The election process Im about to describe is very different from what youre used to, but as I explain how it works, ask yourself these questions:

1. Are the politicians members of the community they represent?
2. Does money give one candidate an advantage over another?
3. Does the public get to vote for the people who will govern over them?
4. Is this a democratic election process?

For any given public office (President, Congress, Governor, etc...), the government would randomly select 100 citizens over the age of 35, from the population the office represents, as candidates for that particular office.

A few elimination rounds would be held where we slowly reduce the number of candidates, from 100 50 10 1. After each elimination round, the pool of candidates will theoretically get better and better, until youre left with one person who is well qualified to fill the position.

As far as each candidate being able to get their message out to the public, we would have one central website where each candidate would have a chance to state their opinions on various topics and to make their case why they should be elected. To ensure freedom of speech, there would be no censorship allowed on this website no matter how offensive it would be to anybody.

To ensure money, and thus corruption, stay out of the election process, political candidates would be barred from any kind of advertising outside of the central website.

Any person/organization wishing to interview any specific candidate(s), must do the same for all other candidates which are running for the same office.

The whole process would take 6 months, an outline of which is found below.



Other requirements and/or clarifications

• If two or more candidates receive the same number of votes, and this would determine if they make it into the next round of voting, or actually win the election, some random event like picking straws, placing names in a hat, flipping a coin, etc... would take place to select the winner(s).

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