no other issue we face -- economic justice, tax reform, environmental action, defense spending, infrastructure, sane foreign policy, et al -- can be seriously or fairly dealt with. The ability to buy votes through campaign contributions makes the legislative process an open air bazaar, the people be damned.

these corporations/charities being political parties and by prohibiting the remaining corporations/charities from donating to political issues.

Politics is not a charity.

but it will not happen as things currently stand. Perhaps the coming four years of lawless Trump rule could generate enough revulsion among voters to force change, but I doubt it.

That is no longer the case. When outlaws take over the system, its weak safeguards fail to properly function. Now we are left with an entrenched minority rule made more pervasive by limitless spending and influence of mega-billionaires and their lackeys. Welcome to a post-American America.

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole

I read the first paragraphed and it looks interesting.

to put the right to guns above the right to life.

Even now, what many fail to understand is in a significant sense we have a great deal of control in the House. The majority is super razor thin and Repukes can't control their own caucaus. Donny doesn't have all that much control either since many R's broke strongly with him over suspending the debt ceiling. (still trying to figure out what Donny is up to with that.) To get anything done, they have to have Dem votes and that comes at a cost.

In the mean time, we need to get off our asses, put the "woe is me" shit aside and get to work. Clean our own damn house of what's no longer useful ( leadership revamp / dump consultants who obviously don't know shit / reassess our ties to monied class / etc. ) and prepare for battle.

One long term goal is what you just typed. Revamp how elections and campaign funding work in this country. We're not the first Americans to be here. In the Gilded Age, the monied class owned the US government, including the courts, until they didn't. Until enough people said enough was enough and wrestled control from them, culminating in FDR's terms. Wasn't easy and took a long time, but we did it. We can do it again.

so that the top ponzi schemers can rake in the chips.

he needs an unlimited debt ceiling to make sure they don't miss any chips

the wall is to keep us in until our distant descendants have repaid the debt, with compound interest.

Congress can and should have addressed the CU debacle by changing 501(c)(3) laws and forbidding political contributions under the guise of the donor being a charity. IMO such a change would have put a huge dent in CU and could have prevented what we are facing today. And IRS rule making is Congressional authority, not USSC.

Politics does not need financial help from charities!

All it takes is propaganda from a populist demagogue to convince the people to vote for a dictatorship.

Prior dumbing down of the populace with infiltration of dogma into the education system, or weakening it by using public funds for promoting government supported private schools helps to get propaganda accepted by voters.

Indifference to political developments by a self-absorbed population makes dictatorial takeover possible in a democracy.

Biased news reporting by huge corporate media outfits influences and controls the information and narrative that reach the people.

There are many things in a democracy that can go wrong. It is a fragile form of government that requires active participation, vigilance, critical thinking, and commitment from the people.