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  What should be the next big Progressive/Liberal cause? (search mode)
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Mordecai
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« on: February 06, 2014, 08:26:46 PM »

+ Child labor laws (banning people under 16 from working altogether)
+ Nationalization of industry (because let's be honest, regulation doesn't work, neither do antitrust laws)
+ Food and consumer safety laws (Give the FDA and Consumer Product Safety Commission/FTC real teeth, end the practice of having only 'voluntary' recalls)
+ 4 Day Workweek (32 hour workweek; we work too much, let's give everyone Friday off)
+ Organize labor (Repeal Taft-Hartley, dramatically expand labor legislation so that it is on the side of the worker, rather than the boss)
+ Lower the retirement age (People work too much, lower it to 55)
+ Eradicate unemployment (Guarantee everyone a job)
+ Paid Leave
+ Living Wages ($22 an hour minimum)
+ Universal Basic Income (give everyone $500 a week)
+ Universal Healthcare (not this 'Obamacare' s**t)
+ Universal Education (let everyone go to college who wants to, provide vocational training for everyone else and heavily, heavily encourage the latter; fewer people should go to college but those who do shouldn't pay a dime for it)
+ National Day Care program to ensure that working mothers have an opportunity to continue to work after having a child
+ Full rights and protections for LGBT individuals, including fully paid for sex changes for trans* Americans and simple legal changes
+ Put people on Mars and establish permanent bases on the Moon
+ Expand public transit, phase out oil-based cars in favor of electric-based ones, institute single-payer auto insurance
+ Legalize all drugs, smash the police/surveillance state, and restore civil liberties
+ End Imperial foreign policy. Bring all the troops home, dump Israel.
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Mordecai
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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2014, 10:17:48 PM »

Hopefully something good for once and get rid of the death penalty.

Lol don't be silly. My money's on euthanasia.
TBF, there is/was a pretty large movement at the state level to abolish the death penalty among us.

Yeah but we also got rid of guns. And it was the conservative party that did it too. Tongue
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