but i kinda feel like what you are saying is equivalent to saying "the world would be better if people were nicer"

i mean yeah. sure, but that ain't what we got

i don't know how you can tell/force people to wait to start selling themselves in what is at its basis a popularity contest

again: we, as a collective, don't vote based on policy promises except in the most vague terms (PRO-LIFE/PRO-CHOICE, progressive, big government/small government, family values, pro-education <---- a bunch of buzzwords what don't really hold any tangible meaning really)

even broken direct campaign promises aren't "punishable" (especially beforehand) - see: "the mexican financed wall" or "free healthcare for every citizen" or "no child left behind"

in a time where both sides are pretty hardline about opposing-side suggestions to most things that would substantially change anything even what you are suggesting seems to be a way for one side to get more "wins"

i don't want to be completely a naysayer, but for me ANY reform idea would have to come with genuine, tangible, measurable "HOWs" attached