Say what you will, the 27th Amendment passed. (IE: makes it constitutionally illegal for Representatives to give themselves payraises immediately. They have to give pay-raises for the _next_ congress, which means it may give a pay-raise to the opponent if they lose the election).

Politicians do, and have, been forced by the people to make bad choices for themselves for the good of the country. And its not like its an easy thing to pass a Constitutional Amendment like the 27th.

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We also used to have very strong laws with regards to campaign finance. It was actually our judges who took those laws away in the Citizen's United case.

But our politicians actually put those laws into place to allow the people to trust them more during campaign finance season.

Etc. etc. Plenty of examples. All we need is to convince enough people that a particular law is a good idea, and then that law will happen.

Sure, but the Congress that approved it never felt its consequences because it took another 200 years for it to become ratified. So the first group it affected was definitely not the same group that voted for it.

Besides there is an automatic annual hike that is self-implementing and doesn't need a vote. It requires a vote to block the hike, lol.

Explain the Martha Wright-Reed Just Reasonable Communications Act of 2022 Consent.

It passed the house with unanimous consent, had bi-partisan support in the senate, and Biden signed it.

The main feature is that it caps prison phone call costs.

This helps inmates and hurts companies. So explain to me how this slots into your view

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1146370950/prison-phone-call-...

This is one of many problems where the profits are concentrated among a few players highly motivated to preserve their existence, at the expense of annoyance among vast numbers of people but not to the degree that they act.

And political communications are exempt from CAN-SPAM