if we dont fix the broken election system, whatever advances we make will be soon undone.

Public financing of elections.

and we dont fix the election system. The Repukes are apt to gain more control of Congress and possibly the presidency. If that happens, kiss your public financing gains goodbye.

Nothing can be fixed if we dont have free and fair elections.

But I believe that getting the money out of our elections is the best start toward getting other reforms done, like ending jerrymandering and those scandalously long lines at polling places in some states we saw in November.

campaign financing. And in 2014 the republicans steal enough elections to add to their HOR majority and manage to get a majority in the Senate. You can kiss your campaign financing bill goodbye.

With out free and fair elections, whatever progress you make will be undone when the repubs get more power.

I think we decrease the likelihood of getting other things done, since rich Repugs have poured so much money into getting their candidates elected. I guess we have sort of a "chicken or the egg" situation here.

I haven't had Eggs Benedict in years.

you got it chicken.

to fix the banks we need to elect officials who will go after them!

I agree with others here that full public financing of elections and campaigns would be the most important battle, and would eventually end TBTF. That's a tough one, though, getting corporate money out of our elections will be an unbelievably difficult (but necessary) fight. Given that, maybe we should target TBTF first, I really don't know. Both things have to happen.

What's the first thing we can all do? Legal thing. We can ALL feasibly do.

Unfortunately some have one-track minds that focus on the most minuscule of issues.

Definitely near the top of the list.