Quote Originally Posted by LKWayvern View Post
First I'd force anyone who wants to be a politician to swear an oath of complete honesty before every debate and speech.
Then I'd make them recite every speech they said that sound sketchy from start to finish while attached to a lie detector.
They already swear an oath first thing when they're sworn into office and polygraphs are not effective lie detectors. They've been known to go off even when someone was not telling a lie. Good idea but not very effective. As for the oath before every speech and debate, given how often politicians come and go while Congress is in session, it would just take up a lot of time that really is pointless. They don't lie during the debates normally anyway, it's when they're speaking to the public that it tends to happen. So if you wanted honesty that'd be the time to have the oath swearing.

Candidly, if I could do anything, I would not do much. Maybe change it to where the electoral college has their votes distributed in ratio to the popular vote of each state rather than the current winner take all system that most states use but overall there's not much I would change. I've seen the world through the political lens and there's not always a straightforward solution to a problem like a lot of people think.