Incomplete list of policies dems can & should pursue:
- medicare for all
- living wage + right to a union
- free college
- end the wars
- public financing of elections
- no corporate pac $ & no big $ bundling pledge
- body cams on lobbyists
- green new deal
- new new deal
Incomplete list of policies dems can & should pursue (cont):
- national direct ballot
- end the drug war
- release non-violent drug offenders
- social security for all (UBI)
- reinstate glass steagall
- penalize corporate outsourcing
- close tax havens
- prosecute wall st crimes
Incomplete list of policies democrats can & should pursue (cont#2)
- chain capital gains to income tax rate
- 5 new marginal tax brackets at high end
- wall st speculation tax
- automatic voter registration
- restore voting rights act
- ranked choice voting
- paper ballots
Incomplete list of policies democrats can & should pursue (cont#3)
- ban on arming human rights violators
- block bad trade deals + renegotiate old ones
- comprehensive immigration reform
- 3 week paid vaca
- paid sick & family leave
- free childcare
- repeal patriot act
Incomplete list of policies democrats can & should pursue (cont#4)
- eliminate homelessness
- expand anti-discrimination protections
- universal background checks on guns
- ban high capacity magazines
- mental health tests on gun purchases
- net neutrality
- restore net privacy
Incomplete list of policies democrats can & should pursue (cont#5)
- protect planned parenthood
- ban GOP TRAP laws
- paycheck fairness act
- close gitmo
- ban private prisons& police
- ban stop & frisk
- comprehensive law enforcement reform
- eliminate homelessness
- abolish ICE
Incomplete list of policies democrats can & should pursue (cont#6)
- protect whistleblowers
- cut aid to Israel to promote peace deal
- reduce military budget
- legalize & regulate weed
- legalize & regulate sex work
- legalize & regulate gambling
- put labor on corporate boards
Incomplete list of policies democrats can & should pursue (cont#7)
- term limits on supreme court
- reduce drug prices
- strengthen FDA, EPA, CFPB
- treat social media as public utilities
- ban on wall st bailouts & corporate welfare
- a lot more I can't think of right now
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List above is incomplete and in no particular order!
Incomplete list of policies democrats can & should pursue (cont#8)
- student loan debt forgiveness
- break up big banks
- eliminate gerrymandering
- Puerto Rico recovery
- incentivize worker owned cooperatives
- ban stock buybacks
- ban death penalty (kills innocents 4% of/time)
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What it means is she’s a vapid ideology-free fame chaser desperately looking for an angle/ niche that she found by feeding fox-drunk losers stale right wing talking points. Glad I could clear that up. (I would tweet this at him but the ‘free speech’ lover has me blocked)
Evolving on a few issues over time is called being human. A complete shift in focus & rapid change of ideology like a religious conversion over a short time is not. Tulsi couldn't even hit the softball of 'droning kids is bad' that Tucker threw at her. Shifted to 'Islamism bad'
Tulsi called Biden dictatorial, not for using title 42 to deport 690k migrants illegally, but for being mean to the border patrol when they were caught being needlessly aggressive to Hatian migrants who had to cross the border back to Mexico to get food & not starve to death
The media response to Biden on Afghanistan is proof that they disliked Bernie bc of his policies. They're treating Biden the exact way they'd treat Bernie if he was president & he left Afghanistan. If you cross the establishment they don't care how many times you served them.
"but Kyle they're just reporting true things that are happening" -- the issue is a matter of emphasis. There wasn't this hair on fire coverage when we learned we were funding & arming warlords with child sex slaves or when we hit RECORD civilian casualties just a few years ago.
The Afghanistan papers proved we were lied to for 2 decades & internally the military was like wtf is the goal, what are we doing, this makes no sense. That was in & out of the news in a DAY!
Never in a million years would I have guessed that some on the left would oppose a vote on medicare for all during a pandemic where 300k people have died and 15+ million have lost their insurance. I'm genuinely astonished and disappointed.
If you oppose the current plan to fight for medicare for all it's incumbent upon you to tell us what *your* plan is, in detail. When do you want the vote? What benchmarks have to be met before you call for the vote? Nobody against the current plan is answering these questions.
Rejecting a concrete plan to fight for medicare for all *right now* for a nebulous undefined one at some obscure date in the future is inadvertent interference for the worst forces in the country. It's a high minded rationalization to accept the status quo longer.
I've deconverted a lot of people from the ugly right-wing pipeline & 1 of the things I've learned is there are no shortcuts in changing minds. It's a long arduous process that that requires thought, nuance & effort bc people are complex. Anyway keep shaming voters good luck!
This is especially the case where identity is concerned. If people perceive you as attacking their being they just further retreat into the comfort of what they already know and they shut off to new ideas.
I think MOST people can eventually have their minds changed, but I think the last thing you should do if that's really your goal is insult them and be dismissive.