The only problem is that campaign finance/lobbying reform won't fix the problem. It is like cutting one head off a 100 headed dragon. Texas doesn't allow corporate money in local elections and it hasn't change the stranglehold that big business has on state politicians. Lieberman (the precious 60th vote) couldn't allow for a public option during the Obamacare debate because 1. ideology and 2. and most importantly in my mind, almost the entire healthcare industry is based out of his state. If he allowed a public option he would be creating competition for his constituents. Similar phenomenon exist in almost all sectors of our economy. Politicians are literally hamstrung by big business because they provide most of the shitty jobs we have in our country and if you challenge them, you challenge most citizen's well-being (which there is some truth to and a lot of illusion as well).
Edit: If you include the DoD budget, our war costs (not included in the DoD budget) and all expenditures from other departments that are related to the military it, our military expenditures for the year are over 1 trillion dollars. This is running our economy into the ground, and because of the previously mentioned concept of 'political engineering' no politician is willing to deal with this. The vast majority of heavy industry in our country (like over 80%) is weapons development/military aviation. Again, those are a lot of jobs. So yeah, we are fucked and the sky is falling and not a single mother-fucker in our government is willing to deal with it.
This type of shit is starting to make more and more sense to me:
I mean, I am not going to start doing it myself, but at least these people are acting upon what they want to see change. Their efforts are futile, but so is voting, petitions and the like. At least it is more fun to break shit than it is to vote.
Edit 2: And I know I just posted a giant rant more or less. I am just pissed and saw this as the most appropriate place to post my rant. Point being, I don't know if I will ever vote for president again. At least not with the current political climate. I am not sure what it would take to change this.