I have a proposal to improve politics: Bypass it. Money and cultural influence are what drive society and government anyway. Governments are staffed with decision makers who are never elected, and who drive the decisions or those who are. The Pentagon (CIA and the FBI) ultimately are who runs the United States Government, which is among many others one reason why countries get bombed and why various policies get passed or not passed no matter who is President or who controls Congress. Elected offices are simply political theater to smokescreen what's ultimately going to happen no matter what. Corporate influence drives political action/corruption because their money drives the day to day ops of everything about the country. If you want to change the system, you get the money and influence to do it. Who you elect and what your platform is or isn't has little more than tangential effect.