The fatal flaw in most of those ideas is that they require the people running things to not be the people we currently have running things. They’re even messing with the voting process to further embed their sucking faces in the body politic.
As it is right now, the foxes are in the henhouse, banging all the chickens. And there’s a line of foxes stretching from the henhouse door to the horizon, just waiting for their turn to get in.