Campaigns for public office should be limited to evenly distributed funds to all candidates with routine audits and disbursement windows to start the campaign season at the right time and prevent electoral burnout. This would also remove corporate backers like oil and military weapons for paying to win an election by burying their opponents through outspending.

Anytime a democracy let’s money decide who speaks, it let’s the richest say what they want while everyone else has to listen. A democracy which treats each candidate the same is the one which elects the best leaders.