r/reformstorm

382 archived posts · Jul 2012 – Feb 2026

Brainstorming ideas to reform the corrupted political system.

r/reformstorm

Networking 4 Reform. Put up or shut up... A community to brainstorm ideas as to how to achieve political reform in the US with the primary view toward fighting corruption and the influence of big dollars on the democratic process. This community aims to be Non-partisan: Whether from the Left or Right or anywhere in between or outside of it, surely we can all agree that we should oppose the corruption that is becoming an evermore presence today.

Created Jul 11, 2012

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What is this subreddit for? It was inspired by podcaster Dan Carlin as a non-partisan space to facilitate "brainstorming" ideas on how best to implement reform ideas that aim to fight the corruption in the US Political System.

Here is a post by Dan that goes some way toward explaining it:

"Hi everyone reading this. My name is Dan Carlin (www.dancarlin.com) I do a couple of podcasts and my audience and I are trying to find ways to spark debate and conversation over how we achieve reform of the "pay-for-play" U.S. political system.

The biggest problem seems to not be the actual ideas for reform, but how we ever get them enacted (seeing as how the people that would need to enact them are the very representatives benefiting from the way the system currently is). I call this getting "From A to C". Hopefully the use of reddit and tying into the brainpower here can help move some reform ideas along. It's not a Left or Right thing...or a Dem Repub thing...very few people from any political stripe WANT a corrupt system. But what is to be done? And more important, in a representative system (which legislates through "Middlemen" right?) how do we get it past the gatekeepers who would certainly fare less well if we did?" - as posted by Dan.

Here is a blogpost that explains in more detail: http://www.dancarlin.com/blog.php/entryview/129

** POSTING RULES **

Please, no personal attacks against people.

Please, no spamming.

Please, keep posts On-Topic (ie related to ideas for reform and issues related to corruption and so on).

NSFW items should be clearly tagged as such, however it is hard to think that there should be many such links that would be relevant here.

If everyone can respect each other and exercise some common sense and courtesy then we will be able to get a lot further than without.

Failure to keep these in mind may result your post being removed.

Thank you.

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