Technology

The people in government are not any different than you or I.

Yup, and I've thought of challenging my state rep because he always runs unopposed. I honestly don't have time for the job, but my rep is such an idiot that maybe it's worth risking the very remote chance that I'll win. I doubt I'd get >20%, and that's including all the protest and pity votes in my district.

Concepts like Net Neutrality were politicized instead of embraced.

It's also not at all what it says on the tin.

Ideally, something like that wouldn't be necessary at all because nobody owns the internet. Yet for some reason everyone wants to regulate it. If I pay for service, I should get the advertised speed, regardless of what I'm accessing. If someone like Netflix wants to host a cache at my ISP, go for it, but it should only be hit if my DNS resolves to that cache (and I control my DNS).

Yet ISPs, governments, and big tech companies all think they own it. Just back off.

Truly a libertarian hellscape where private interests control everything.

More like a nightmare for libertarians. Everywhere I look there's cronyism, and that's distinctly anti-libertarian. Banks get bailed out when they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar instead of the execs serving jail time. ISPs violate their contracts and nobody holds them to task.

Our government is so ineffective it has basically given into private interests.

I think the opposite is true. Our government is so effective that special interests rarely need to lobby, because our reps sell us out on their own. If you want to see who representatives are loyal to, look no further than their campaign contributions.

The problem is that we keep expecting government to solve our problems without ensuring that they're actually loyal to us, the people. And why should they? It's not like we're going to vote them out next time, we'll keep voting with our tribe because maybe this time they'll listen (they won't).

No, for government to actually be worth trusting, we need massive reforms to realign the federal government with the interests of the people. State governments are often better (esp in smaller states) because there's less to get from buying those reps, though that's not exactly true in my area (Utah, where the predominant church largely calls the shots on important legislation). Some options:

• eliminate what campaign funds can be spent on, and largely eliminate rallys (candidates can host one town hall in each state), political ads, etc
• replace House districts with proportional representation in each state
• replace FPTP with something like STAR or Approval voting

In general, get money out of politics as much as possible, and attack the two party duopoly. That probably won't fix it, but it's a start.

write a new constitution

Maybe. I'm not sure what I'd change that couldn't be fixed with an amendment or two though, and that's likely way easier than replacing the Constitution (which I largely like).