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15 hours ago, SayAgain said:

Electoral college should be abolished also ... it was setup centuries ago when the US population was in a very different demographic.

The Electoral college ensures that *States* matter in the voting process, not just raw population numbers.

It is easy to forget that we have, or are supposed to have, a Federalist system comprised of semi-sovereign States, hence the United *States* of America.

Without the Electoral College, States like Wyoming, the Dakotas, Rhode Island, Vermont, and others would have no influence at all and the Presidential election would be entirely dominated by California, Texas, New York, and Florida, giving those few States too much of a say in the outcome.

15 hours ago, SayAgain said:

Gerrymandering needs to be abolished ASAP

I agree, but mapping areas into roughly equal populations must be done somehow in order to create Congressional districts, which is not easy in itself and never a perfect process.  Clearly, making an oddly-shaped district containing cities or counties 100 miles from each other in order to give a certain party an advantage should be prohibited.  The Judicial branch usually decides whether the maps are acceptable, so it's not entirely up to corrupt legislators, although the judicial branch has been corrupted as well.

No govt. will ever be 100% just and fair because it comes down to people making decisions in the end, and many people are selfish, fallible, greedy, and corrupt.  We've had our checks and balances to ensure things didn't go too awry, but that system started breaking down decades ago, just as happened a little over 2,000 years ago with the Roman Republic, which lasted about 400 years before it started to become hopelessly corrupted.

15 hours ago, SayAgain said:

We need an entity that is entirely independent of a governmental (house/senate/president) that has NO political ties or swing or anything that adjusts the information discovery with 100% transparency

Wikipedia was supposed to at least partially fulfill this role, but it has become biased and corrupted like everything else.

The media has always been corrupt and partisan.  Thomas Jefferson believed in a free press but he loathed the newspapers, calling the writers "malign" and complaining that they reported "falsehoods".  Here's just one of several of his quotes about the media:

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”

Dave