Physicist, SF writer, and all around smart guy, Dr. David Brin identified a list of 31 consensus goals which Democrats, the far left, centrists, and even some moderate Republicans can agree to. Keep in mind, we can’t accomplish any of them unless we win an election. Think about that before you cast a vote for a spoiler.
Electoral reform: end gerrymandering, rigged voting machines, voter suppression and other cheats,
Election money transparency and steps toward reducing the political dominance of cash,
Restore our alliances and fair trade,
Deter acts of war (cyber/electoral/trade etc.) against our nation/institutions,
End "supply side" vampirism by the aristocracy we rebelled against in 1776,
Infrastructure, paid for by ending supply side voodoo,
DACA,
Children out of cages, refugees given safe places to live and process,
Whistleblower protections and rewards for those revealing corruption and blackmail; plus a ten year limit
on non-disclosure agreements,
Attack international banking secrecy, shell company games, hidden ownership, money laundering,
A Marshall Plan for Central America. Hold their corrupt elites accountable,
Medicare for all children (a start, so popular the GOP can’t dare refuse),
Climate action – vigorous first steps,
Restore science, R&D and technological leadership as national strengths,
Protect women’s autonomy, credibility and command over their own bodies,
Consumer protection, empower the Consumer Financial Protection Board.
At least allow student debt refinancing. Analyze and start doing much more.
Restore the postal savings bank for the un-banked,
Basic, efficient, universal background checks,
Basic-level Net Neutrality for consumers,
A revised-throttled War Powers Act and limit presidential emergency powers,
Civil Service protection,
Reject racism, gender-phobia, Nazism etc. as evils while calming all sanctimonies,
Restore respect for things called facts. Support professions that use them,
Restore rebuttal rules on “news” channels,
Emoluments supervision. Audit the cheating, money-laundering oligarchy,
Ease out of the damned drug war (at least don’t impede states),
Anti-trust breakup of monopoly/duopolies,
Allow pharma renegotiation and stop the tricks that stymie generics,
Restore some of the social contract set up by the FDR-loving "Greatest Generation" (GG).
…and finally number thirty-one…
Win. Rip every branch and tool of power away from what has mutated into an international cabal of gangsters, carbon kings, casino moguls, slumlords, Wall Street parasites, petro-boyars, inheritance brats, drug kingpins, communist tyrants, “ex”-communist KGB agents and Nazis. Overwhelmingly and decisively defeat that monstrous consortium and save civilization.
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