Design your own political party

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NAME OF PARTY: Liberal Party
AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS¹:
Young Liberals
College Liberals
LGBTQ+ Liberals
Women Liberals
IDEOLOGY: Liberalism, social liberalism, centrism; factions: liberal conservatism, neoliberalism, progressivism
INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATION²: Liberal International, Progressive Alliance
OFFICIAL COLOR(S): yellow
OFFICIAL MOTTO: For a Better Tomorrow and a Better Today
OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS³:
POLITICAL POSITION⁴: center-right to center-left

POLITICAL PROGRAM⁵

1. Total gun ban
2. Total fossil fuel ban and massive subsidies for renewable energy
3. Eliminate all protective tariffs
4. Create a system of fully-funded (by the government) healthcare, with services provided by the private sector. The government shall provide funds for the private sector in order for them to provide the healthcare services.
5. Liberalize abortion laws and make it legal for a minimum of 20 weeks in every state
6. Electoral Reform: Abolish federalism and presidentialism, Switch to a bicameral parliamentary system, the power of the Senate is reduced greatly with it being more of an advisory chamber now rather than a legislative system. The House of Representatives is expanded to 1,000 seats. FPTP is also abolished and replaced with closed list PR for the House and STV for the Senate. Additionally, to ensure compliance with the VRA, nationwide minority lists shall also be created, in a way not too dissimilar to NZ's Maori lists, and it'd be for groups like Asians, Hispanics, African Americans, etc. End result is a unitary parliamentarian system of government.
7. Tax Reform: Bring itemized and state and local tax deductions back to their pre-TCJA levels, raise income taxes on the wealthiest Americans, create a 5% wealth tax for those making over $100 million. Also bring in a VAT, raise the federal gas tax and index it to inflation, and pass a VMT.
8. Transportation: Create a network of tolled highways and express lanes to generate revenue, this may be by using existing free highways or by building new ones.
9. Agriculture: Consider the environmental impacts of animal rearing and slowly take steps to reduce it, begin by introducing high taxes (30-45%) on animal meats that come from animals that come from animals that are the worst offenders of pollution. Over time, place limits on the amount of pounds of meat that can be in the market at any one time to make animal agriculture ultimately unprofitable. Also begin to research possible rewilding techniques.
10. Centralize school curricula. Standards for the material to be taught in schools shall be decided by a panel of teachers from around the country, who will be selected by the government, who shall look at a number of criteria to select these teachers, these standards will be taught across the country and will be tested in a government-created test, which must be passed, in order to advance to the next grade level.
11. Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and be committed to other measures to support women's rights
12. Overturn any state bans on affirmative action
13. Require schools to teach about the racist parts of America's history, and require teachers to engage these students on these topics to allow for students to understand issues like racism and prejudice, also students shall be required to write essays on both these topics as well as on their own thoughts on racism and prejudice.
14. Ban any and all Confederate imagery, including flags, the song "Dixie," etc.
15. Change the structure of the Supreme Court, require for judges to be officially nonpartisan and recommended from top law associations. Also confirmations shall require 75% of Congress, including 50% of the members from the minority party


¹Basically, any organizations not directly (or directly, I guess it depends on how you personally would run your party) run by the party but linked to it in a formal way. Like the College Democrats or Young Republicans or Young Labour, etc. Many parties have specific wings for students, youth wings, women's wings, etc. So that's your prerogative here if you'd have anything like that.
²Would your organization be affiliated with the Socialist International, International Democrat Union, etc?
³Parties in places outside of the U.S. tend to have either an official paper or one that is unofficially supportive of them. Include one or more if you'd like.
⁴Not technically the same thing as ideology. This is more or less whether or not your party is on the center-left, far-left, center-right, far-right, etc.
⁵I'm going to leave the part below this blank, because I don't want to pigeonhole what you might come up with as important or something that you'd in particular advocate if you were designing your own political party. You can post what you'd like there. Where your party stands on the issues, what it would do if it were in power, etc.
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