Elections Corrupt the Democratic Process [video]

The long and short of this is the idea that elections are inherently the driving factor in the corruption of government, and that the solution is to randomly select citizens to govern...

I'm sorry but the conclusion is built upon faulty logic. What makes elections inherently corrupt? He is looking at the symptom and not the underlying causes here. Like how tf are you not even going to mention the "Citizens United" ruling in the case of US. This allowed corporations to be seen as "people" with the rights "of the people" and allowed them to create Super PACS (political action committees) that can hold billions of dollars and spend that money on swaying public opinion with ads and campaigns. You literally cannot run for election in most cases and beat a candidate who can dump 100 million dollars into your opposition because you oppose something like regulating toxic chemicals in the water/food or sending weapons to foreign nations.

This is literally happening right now. In fact we just broke the record for money spent in state elections, all by a foreign nation as well. You cannot have a Democratic system when elections are this intertwined with money. But the problem is not elections, its how we conduct them and the laws surrounding them (if we are to think along the lines of modern neo-liberal civic policy and not another framework)

the solution is pretty simple, repeal Citizens United, regulate money in politics strictly, give people a lever of power to enforce that regulation and make campaigns grass-rootsand publicly funded endeavors.