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« Reply #1550 on: August 11, 2023, 06:29:53 PM »

The more I think about it, I think the worst thing someone can do is subscribe to a single ideology (i.e. "liberal", "conservative", "socialist"), and think because they are that ideology, all their positions have been laid out for them.

The world is too complex for any one ideology to always be correct and have no hypocracy within it.

Furthermore, when people try to subscribe to a single party, sometimes that party just picks up positions to be anti-the other party, even if that anti-position is just bad.

I feel like the best thing we can do is think about individual issues, and think about solutions that will make the biggest positive impact on the most people possible, and/or will improve the position of our country as a whole.

Ik that sounds vague and corny, but I think it's the truth.
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« Reply #1551 on: August 11, 2023, 06:51:15 PM »

The more I think about it, I think the worst thing someone can do is subscribe to a single ideology (i.e. "liberal", "conservative", "socialist"), and think because they are that ideology, all their positions have been laid out for them.

The world is too complex for any one ideology to always be correct and have no hypocracy within it.

Furthermore, when people try to subscribe to a single party, sometimes that party just picks up positions to be anti-the other party, even if that anti-position is just bad.

I feel like the best thing we can do is think about individual issues, and think about solutions that will make the biggest positive impact on the most people possible, and/or will improve the position of our country as a whole.

Ik that sounds vague and corny, but I think it's the truth.

Why would what you are describing be bad? Most people are not politicians and do not need to have a position on every issue. Coming up with one is a waste of time and mental energy that could be more profitably applied to any other activity. I try not to think about individual issues.
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« Reply #1552 on: August 11, 2023, 10:22:42 PM »

The more I think about it, I think the worst thing someone can do is subscribe to a single ideology (i.e. "liberal", "conservative", "socialist"), and think because they are that ideology, all their positions have been laid out for them.

The world is too complex for any one ideology to always be correct and have no hypocracy within it.

Furthermore, when people try to subscribe to a single party, sometimes that party just picks up positions to be anti-the other party, even if that anti-position is just bad.

I feel like the best thing we can do is think about individual issues, and think about solutions that will make the biggest positive impact on the most people possible, and/or will improve the position of our country as a whole.

Ik that sounds vague and corny, but I think it's the truth.

Why would what you are describing be bad? Most people are not politicians and do not need to have a position on every issue. Coming up with one is a waste of time and mental energy that could be more profitably applied to any other activity. I try not to think about individual issues.

I agree that regular people do not need to have nuanced policy positions on every issue; realistically you can't expect them too.

The issue imo is that subscribing to a party or ideology gives on the belief they are an expert on every issue just because they go along with the partisan talking point. I think one thing we could use is greater humility and acknowledgement of the issues we honestly might not be very well informed on.

I for instance don't have a great understanding of economics of international politics (like trade, wars, ect). I tend to stay out of discussions around those and am much more willing to listen to those who are actually experts to inform my views. On the flip side, on something like redistricting (and electoral politics more generally), I feel like I have become somewhat an expert in my own right and feel comfortable developing my own unique position.

I think we should think of "ideology" more as a set of values we hold highest. Those values can vary from person to person, but their values should really be around how they *think* about issues, not giving positions for them.

Ig if people want they can still assign themselves an ideological label. But that label should represent their general values and how they think, not their slate of policy positions.

Someone can "think like a conservative" meaning they place values of freedom for as many as possible, independence, ect) but still end up supporting policy positions that are generally associated with liberals, or vice-versa.
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« Reply #1553 on: August 21, 2023, 10:59:08 PM »

Libertarian, nationalist, conservative.
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« Reply #1554 on: August 25, 2023, 01:16:36 PM »

Social: Libertarian. I believe strongly in individual freedom, including the right for a woman to choose, the right to keep and bear arms, the right for a homosexual couple to marry, the right to practice one's religion, and the right to privacy. I also believe strongly in the separation of church and state.

Economic: I believe that small businesses and innovative fields like the "green" industry are what stimulate the economy. I believe their autonomy should be protected, and I support free trade. However, I recognize that consumers and small businesses need protection from predatory corporations seeking to create monopolies, so I advocate strong, transparent government regulation of industry.

Foreign: I am pragmatic when it comes to foreign policy. I believe in a world of shared self-interest. I also believe in spreading democracy, but through the power of votes and reformers, not through the power of bullets and bombs. I think institutions like the U.N. are good experiments but need a lot of reform in order to be effective.

Honestly? Not a lot has changed for me on these issues!
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« Reply #1555 on: August 25, 2023, 03:12:54 PM »
« Edited: October 20, 2023, 06:30:38 PM by WalterWhite »

SOCIAL:
Overall attitude: Socially progressive
Abortion: Increase funding, fully legal until birth
Guns: Rigorous training and background checks to own a gun, close gun-show loophole
Body armor: Unrestricted access
Drugs: Fully legalize marijuana and LSD, decriminalize other drugs
Criminal justice: Increase funding for public defenders, abolish private prisons, stricter sentencing guidelines (i.e. less judicial discretion, not harsher), disarm police in all cases except when responding to violent emergencies, abolish the death penalty, focus on rehabilitation and deterrence rather than punishment, more lenient sentencing for non-violent offenses, more comprehensive police training
LGBT: Fully support same-sex marriage, HRT and sex change surgery with informed consent, and fully oppose discrimination based purely on sexuality or gender identity
Gender: Add Equal Rights Amendment
School choice: Increase funding for public schools, abolish for-profit charter schools
Energy: Full transition to renewables and nuclear
Voting: Institute an easily-accessible universal voter ID, make Election Day a federal holiday, ban partisan gerrymandering, set term limits for Senators and Representatives, and make all elections officially non-partisan
Immigration: Make legal immigration and obtaining citizenship or asylum status easier, increased border patrolling, cut back on deportations, no border wall
Affirmative action: Not explicitly race-based, but factor into account all forms of discrimination
Legacy admissions: Abolish
Birth control: Fully legal
Euthanasia: Fully legalize

ECONOMIC:
Overall attitude: Economically interventionist
Monopolies: Bust all monopolies and trusts
Healthcare: Public option for Obamacare
Social Security: Increase benefits, lower full retirement age to 60
Taxes: Dramatically raise for the 1%, moderately raise for the upper middle class, slightly lower for the lower middle class and the very poor
Unemployment: Universal employment
Automation: Heavily regulate (<25% of the work done by a business can be automated)
Environmental regulation: Strengthen regulations and regulation enforcement, support Green New Deal
Consumer protection: Strengthen regulations
Climate change: Dramatically increase carbon taxes, increase funding for renewable and nuclear energy
Prescription drugs: Dramatically lower costs
Free trade: Protectionist and bring manufacturing to the US
Minimum wage: Increase to $21/hr
Unions: Repeal right-to-work, employees should have the final say in all decisions
College: Free undergraduate
Infrastructure spending: Increase nationwide, dramatically increase in less prosperous communities
Campaign finance: Abolish Super PACs and make all political donations transparent
Student loan forgiveness: Forgive at least $50K/student

FOREIGN:
Overall attitude: Foreign policy dove & internationalist
Military spending: Cut
Military bases: Close military bases in Western Europe
Military intervention: Only send troops in the event on an invasion or secessionist movement
Humanitarian aid: Slightly increase
Peace Corps: Increase funding slightly
Nuclear weapons: Global nuclear disarmament
United Nations: Should be better at enforcing international law
International law: Must always be obeyed
NATO: Remain
Israel & Palestine: Two-state solution, force Israel to withdraw all settlements from the West Bank
Ukraine: Priority #1 should be a peace deal that gives Ukraine its pre-2014 borders at the minimum, but continue funding the war effort until this is reached
Saudi Arabia: Cut ties until Saudi Arabia solves its human rights violations

MISCELLANIOUS:
1) Add a chamber of Congress filled with elected representatives from every officially-recognized Native American tribe
2) Add Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as states
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« Reply #1556 on: October 04, 2023, 01:16:56 PM »

LGBT: Fully support same-sex marriage, HRT and sex change surgery with informed consent, and fully oppose discrimination based purely on sexuality or gender identity
"If you can cut your dick off, then you can do meth" - The original Walter White, probably
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« Reply #1557 on: October 05, 2023, 03:57:40 PM »
« Edited: October 05, 2023, 04:03:44 PM by RidinWithBiden24 »

Political History:

2000-2016: Apolitical, first-ever political experience was channel surfing and catching the 2016 Libertarian Convention Presidential Debate on CSPAN

Late 2016: Cringe AnCap terminally online right-winger, Republican

2017-2019: Trump-supporting AnCap, Republican

2019-2020: Yang Gang-ster turned Kanye West voter, Republican until 1/6

2021-2022: Apolitical-leaning Democrat, was really sickened by 1/6 and the fallout from it but still socially right-wing for the most part

2023: "NeoLib" Democrat, pretty center-left on most issues and supportive of Biden

Notable Votes:

2018 NY Gubernatorial Election - Stephanie Miner

2020 Democratic Primary - Yang for Nominee, Gabbard's Delegates

2020 Election - Kanye West

2022 NY Gubernatorial Election - Lee Zeldin
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« Reply #1558 on: November 06, 2023, 06:19:13 PM »
« Edited: November 06, 2023, 09:49:18 PM by wnwnwn »

If I ruled the States...

SOCIAL:
Abortion: Pro choice but no federal funding
Guns: Background checks (incl mental evaluation)
Drugs: All legalized, highly taxed and regulated
Criminal justice:
- No private prisons, but continue forced work
- Police accountabily and body cams
- Better training
- Gun use when necessary
LGBT:
- Ban discrimination for sexual or gender identity on public spaces
- Equal marriage, even in reservations
- Ban trans hormonal therapy for minors
Energy:
- Tax beneficts and research funding for nuclear energy
- Tax oil and coal
- A bit of "Green New Deal" for the poorest states
Voting:
- Federal Voter ID (made it a constitutional right of necessary)
- Election Day on Sunday
- Redistriting for federal congress districts done by the federal goverment
- Maximun age for elected politicians
Immigration:
- Increase border security
- Ease as much as possible the inmigration of qualifed workers hired by american business
- Outside of the former cases, use something like IQ tests but for the multiple inteligences to decide to give Green Cards or not (don't ban me please)
Affirmative action: Income based AA
Legacy admissions: Ban
Birth control: Fully legal
Euthanasia: Let the states decide
SCOTUS: Term limits

ECONOMIC:
Monopolies: Bust them all
Healthcare: Universal single payer (incl pills and dental)
Social Security: Mantain the current situation
Taxes: Strong anti loophole laws
Automation: Tax it a bit
Environmental regulation: Higher regulations
Consumer protection: Mantain regulations
Free trade: Force american owned factores to follow american regulations
Minimum wage: Mantain the federal level one
Unions: Repeal right-to-work
College: Free on state colleges (only useful majors)
Infrastructure spending: Increase investment in public transportation
Campaign finance: Make all political donations transparent
Student loan forgiveness: Forgive some cases

FOREIGN:
Military spending: Cut
Humanitarian aid: Decrease
International law: Support it on human right issues
NATO: Remain
Israel & Palestine: Two-state solution (Israel out of the West Bank, Hamas out of Gaza).
Rest of Middle East: Support secular goverments as possible
China: Pragmatism
Russia/Ukraine: Russian areas for Russia, ukranian areas for Ukraine

EDUCATION:
History education:
- General values and patriotis building at primary school, but no myths
(include precolumbian history)
- Focus on foreing history at middle school (mostly western, but include Asia, Latin America and Africa)
- Mix foreing and local history at high school, let them know how every race, country and civilization did good and bad things.
Maths/Science: Teach them as normal, no CC
Sex education:
- Some topics to help children avoid groomers at primary
- Some basic topics at middle school
- Let the states be at high school
- Teach agaisnt bigotry on all forms on other classes
Music: Put classical music and jazz on each public school
Trades: For males and females, mandatory for high school
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« Reply #1559 on: November 23, 2023, 02:19:21 AM »
« Edited: November 23, 2023, 02:35:27 AM by RilakkuMAGA »

Overall: Illiberal Progressive (you could say, Progressive Conservative?)

Social Policy
* Moderate on abortion. Should be available/insured when people need it. If so, a 15 week limit is okay.
* Pro-LGBT. Lots of trans activists suck, but trans rights overall good. All the transwomen in sports just to spite Bari Weiss.
* Legalize but strongly regulate soft drugs, euthanasia, and prostitution.
* Expand the death penalty for crimes that are hard to falsely convict for (multiple murders, mass killings, etc.)
* Stricter restrictions on handguns, other guns are okay.
* End affirmative action/racial quotas for all non-public positions (but it makes sense for police, teachers, etc.)
* Immigration reform to make legal immigration easier, including a path to citizenship for illegals currently here.
* Build the wall (where safe to humans/environment).
* Expand CCTV and public cameras dramatically to fight crime.
* Massively expand police funding and police numbers, but tie new funding to police reform.
* Institute more animal rights. Regulate factory farming. Promote meat alternatives.

Economic Policy
* Minimum wage should be higher in most places, but one-size-all wage is bad because CoL differs.
* Increase income taxes for upper-middle class (over $250k) and end the Social Security Base Wage Cap.
* Lower corporate taxes and capital gains taxes. End the estate tax.
* Deregulate, mostly (but not everywhere).
* Against most welfare programs, especially UBI/stimulus checks.
* For most universal social programs, including universal healthcare, though it doesn't need to be M4A.
* Universal affordable childcare, but eliminate most child benefits/welfare (they encourage women to leave the workforce, which is gender inegalitarian).
* Maintain Social Security as is.
* Free trade is largely good; end the tariffs and begin complying with the WTO.
* Fight climate change with every method possible (wind, solar, nuclear, etc.) Large public works to promote decarbonization.
* Send fewer people to college. Work something out for people who didn't graduate and are stuck with loans.
* Tax private college endowments to fund public universities. Ban spending on DEI administrators.
* Very pro-YIMBY, pro-development, though the YIMBYs themselves are annoying.
* Massively expand both roads and public transit, especially intra-city transit.
* Moderate on unions. Some are good, some are bad.
* Do everything imaginable to increase housing supply, including CCTV-monitored public housing.

Foreign Policy
* Actively participate in the UN, WTO, WHO, and other international organizations.
* Broadly align with the Global South on political, cultural, and economic issues - and to fight global white supremacy.
* Leave NATO, a unilateralist and white supremacist organization.
* Anti-Putin, but pro-SMO in Ukraine (end all military aid to Ukraine).
* Cooperate with China to combat climate change and fentanyl. Immediately end foolish and self-destructive trade war.
* Use diplomacy and economic ties to maintain peaceful status quo in the Taiwan Strait.
* Close most military bases abroad.
* Massive cuts to defense spending (over time). Redeploy personnel for public works and public safety at home.
* Condemn Israeli war crimes and end all military aid, but maintain economic ties and support for Israeli civil society in opposing apartheid.
* Cut all military support to the Saudi invasion of Yemen (but maintain good economic ties). Recognize and reconcile with the Taliban government in Afghanistan (try to bribe them to be better on women's rights).
* Recognize Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs; seek economic and diplomatic reconciliation.
* Immediately end embargo on Cuba/Venezuela/Nicaragua and seek reconciliation.
* Turn the United States into the number one global destination for refugees.
* Nuremberg-style trials for leading neoconservatives and liberal hawks.

Politics
* Continue appointing FedSoc judges.
* Universal voter registration with election day as a holiday.
* Pro-vaccination in all cases, but coercion isn't an effective way of promoting it.
* Against slavery reparations and explicitly racial policies, but the state should seek to erase racial disparities through non-explicit racial methods.
* Federalism mostly works, and we should seek to retain the United States constitutional structure against radical extremists on both sides.
* All technological development is generally good, and people who whine about progress should be ignored.
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« Reply #1560 on: January 17, 2024, 12:58:55 PM »

Social Issues
Abortion: Total ban except for cases of rape, incest, health of mother and few others
Birth Control: Keep legal
LGBT+ Rights: Marriage should only be for a man and a woman
Drugs: Keep marijuana illegal
Death Penalty: Support in the case of murderers and rapists with undeniable evidence against them
Gun Control: None
Policing: Increase funding
PATRIOT ACT: Get rid of it.
Immigration: Expand legal immigration and increase the number of refugees we take in. Increase border security.
Euthanasia: Only if the person in question is still mentally "there" and consents to it
COVID-19: Ban mask mandates and social distancing except in hospitals
Trans: Trans atheltes should only play sports of their biological sex. Should only use restrooms of their biological sex. Minors should not be allowed to transition

Economic Issues
Minimum Wage: Increase national minimum wage to $15, with further increases being tied to inflation
Taxes: Raise on rich people and big corporoations
Unions: Support unions and PRO Act. Penalize union busting
Healthcare: Medicare for All, price caps on drugs
Social Security: Remove cap on income
Trade: Support protectionist policies to keep/bring back jobs
Monopolies: Bust those trusts!

Foreign Policy
Interventionism: Stay out of war unless we were attacked or a genocide is occurring
Russia: Support Ukraine and expand sanctions
China: Support protectionist trade policies and shift our manufacturing back to the US, so we are less reliant on them
Saudi Arabia: Drill for oil in the US more, as well as expanding clean energy
Israel/Palestine: Two state solution, cut Israeli aid
NATO: Stay in NATO, and use it to keep Putin at bay


Elections and Democracy

Electoral College: Abolish for a popular vote
Gerrymandering: Ban at both federal and state level
Voting: Make E-Day a holiday, but require photo ID to vote. Universal voter registration
Supreme Court: Add single 10 year term limits
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« Reply #1561 on: February 24, 2024, 07:02:26 PM »
« Edited: March 02, 2024, 09:40:55 PM by Frodo »

Democracy-Related Issues

Constitutional Reform: Given the existing presidential system of checks and balances has been found so wanting in an era of ideologically-sorted political parties, polarized politics, and an imperial Presidency verging on creeping executive authoritarianism, I support calling a Constitutional Convention under the guidelines set by Article V of the existing Constitution. The object of the Constitutional Convention would be the writing of a new Constitution declaring we are a federal parliamentary republic with a multi-party system, including the adoption of the doctrine of parliamentary/legislative sovereignty, and moving the nation's capital to a more geographically central location in the Union (preferably somewhere in between Omaha and Kansas City along the Missouri River, but outside the flood plain), both because of rising sea levels, but also to represent a symbolic break with the past, and a fresh start as we fundamentally rewrite our Constitution to shape the future of our federal republic and representative democracy for generations to come.  

Washington, D.C. was built from the wilderness on the backs of slave labor as a brand new capital to break with our colonial past as well as served as a compromise location between the North and South at the time; so similarly will this new capital in the American heartland, in the midst of those who feel alienated from a faraway coastal city, represent a break from the accumulated two hundred years of slavery and Jim Crow that cast an indelible shadow and legacy on the current capital city, and marked the old republic.  Given the immense changes involved with changing from a presidential to a parliamentary democracy, we will need a blank canvas -a tabula rasa- hence a brand new capital with no baggage from the old existing capital city. 
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At least thirty-eight out of the existing fifty states must ratify the new Constitution for it to take effect.

Here are some details I want to see included:

-The House of Representatives would be directly elected via mixed-member proportional representation from each of their respective states, with a 5% electoral threshold for political parties.  House members, who must be at least 25 years old and live as US citizens in the state they represent for at least seven years, can serve multiple four-year terms. The size of the House as a whole shall be determined by the Founders' Rule, and the number of House members directly elected by their respective states is proportional to their state's share of the national population as determined by a constitutionally-mandated decennial Census. The powers of the US House of Representatives in this new system would be equivalent to the Australian House of Representatives.

-The Senate would remain directly elected thanks to the 17th amendment.  Two senators, who must be at least 30 years old and live as US citizens in the state they represent for at least nine years, will be elected from each of their states in staggered, multiple six-year terms.  So essentially the same as it is now, except that the power to filibuster would be removed.  The Senate would have the powers equivalent to the Australian Senate.

-The Prime Minister -who is appointed by the President- would be the head of government and the Cabinet.  He or she must be a member of the political party or coalition that has a majority in the House of Representatives.  The Prime Minister would not have the power to call elections -instead, they would be subject to a default, fixed election date early in November for a general election, which would be once every four years on an even-numbered year as constitutionally mandated.  Election Day would be made a quadrennial holiday to maximize voter turnout and participation.  Unlike in Australia, no one will be required to vote.  States would be strongly encouraged to adopt universal, automatic voter registration, some form of proportional representation for their legislatures, and to hold elections to their legislatures on the same day.

-The President, who must be at least 35 years old and be a US citizen for at least fourteen years, would be the head of state who is elected by a two-thirds majority of both chambers of Congress for a single five-year term, and (not unlike the Governor-General in commonwealth countries) gives assent to all laws passed by Congress, acts upon the advice of the Prime Minister or other Cabinet members, and oversees foreign policy and the national defense.  The Vice-President, who must also be at least 35 years old and be a US citizen for at least fourteen years, would be similarly elected (but can run for multiple five-year terms), and also serves as the President of the Senate.  Following the Indian model, anyone running for President must have either been the Vice-President, Governor, or a member of the Cabinet, and be qualified for election to the House of Representatives.  Anyone running for Vice-President must not hold any office of profit, and be qualified for election as a member of the Senate.  

-The Supreme Court and the federal judiciary would more closely resemble the judicial system of the United Kingdom as stipulated by the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005.  In the event of a vacancy, all judicial nominations made by the President would be screened by a Judicial Appointments Commission not unlike its UK equivalent.  They then would be voted upon by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a closed hearing (and not subject to a public floor vote by the full Senate) to avoid politicization.  At least two-thirds of the committee's votes are required for confirmation.  Judges and justices serve for life.    

-Articles IV, V, and VI, of the existing Constitution would remain unchanged.  I also support incorporating the original ten amendments of the Bill of Rights, as well as the three Reconstruction-era amendments plus the 19th amendment, into a new written Constitution.  
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Second Amendment: The Second Amendment was intended to be seen as protecting an individual right as with all the other original ten amendments that comprised the Bill of Rights when it was added to the Constitution.  When it was originally written, 'militia' connoted the entirety of the citizenry, not just a government-created body.  

Accordingly, I support concealed-carry, castle-doctrine laws, and other liberalizing measures. I strongly oppose gun-bans at any governmental level.  However, as with every other amendment, there are limits.

With greater freedom comes greater responsibility in using that freedom, and it is in that spirit that I support measures like mandatory firearms training and universal background checks before any gun or permit is issued, to ensure that the unorganized citizens' militia is well-trained and well-regulated.

District of Columbia: So long as it remains our national capital, I support having the non-federal areas of DC retroceded to Maryland as the city of Washington, thereby enabling the residents within to be represented at all levels of government.  

Social/Cultural Hot-Button issues

Women's Rights: If the Supreme Court sends the current Equal Rights Amendment back to square one, we should push for a new (and expanded) version of the Equal Rights Amendment along the lines of the Nevada version, and this time with no deadline for passage.  This should be the wording of the revised resolution text of the federal Equal Rights Amendment:

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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States:

"ARTICLE —

"Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.

"Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

"Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification."


Gay Rights: I applaud the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide, Congress passing the Respect for Marriage Act repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and to ensure the Supreme Court doesn't backtrack, as well as supporting the passage of the Equality Act placing the LGBTQ community under the protection of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as well as other efforts to ensure that they are accepted as full and equal members in our society.  

Race: Support the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to protect the electoral franchise of African Americans and other minorities.  Support ending housing discrimination against racial/ethnic minorities, as well as fixing and preserving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (instead of scrapping them); ending the abuse of authority by law-enforcement agencies; and ending the 'War on Drugs' beginning with overturning the Controlled Substances Act, criminal justice reform including ending mandatory minimum sentencing, and instead treat the drug war as a public health issue.

Immigration: Support comprehensive immigration reform that includes:
-completing the border wall along the US/Mexico border, as well as adding a virtual border wall to complement it.
-easing the legal immigration process (while reaffirming unrestricted birthright citizenship) so migrants don't feel impelled to fast-track the process by jumping the border, including ending the last elements of the 1924 Immigration Act by eliminating the restrictive immigration quota system once and for all.
-reducing the legal backload in the immigration courts by hiring more judges (plus staff)
- Incorporate the DREAM Act into any immigration reform bill.    

Economic issues

Secondary Education: Favor adapting the Finland education model to the United States, including a major expansion in after-school tutoring programs as well as universal pre-school education; and changing the traditional school year to a year-round schedule for struggling schools.  

Higher Education: Support making community colleges and vocational schools tuition-free, and encouraging prospective college students to fulfill their introductory course requirements in a community college, while subsequently completing their bachelor's and master's degrees in the four years they will spend at a traditional college/university.    

Tax Code: In addition to closing tax loopholes, raising taxes on capital gains and dividends, preserving the estate tax, and setting the top individual income tax rate at 50%, I favor tax reforms including lowering the corporate income tax alongside cracking down on overseas tax havens, and introducing the Value-Added Tax (superseding all preceding sales and use taxes) tied with cash rebates via smart cards for less affluent Americans.

Entitlement programs: I support Medicare Extra for All so that working Americans won't lose their health insurance as well as their jobs.  Until that is achieved, I support ensuring the future of Medicare and Social Security for generations to come (and perhaps even expanding them).  These are the measures I am prepared to support:

-Slow Benefit Growth for Top 20% Of Earners
-Raise Retirement Age to 69 then index to Longevity
-Index COLAs (cost of living adjustments) to "CPI-E", or the consumer price index for the elderly, it being more generous and a better hedge against inflation.
-Tighten Social Security Disability Insurance Eligibility Criteria
-Limit Spousal Benefits for High Earners
-Create Minimum Benefit at 125% of Poverty
-Increase Benefits Across the Board
-Apply the Benefit Formula to Annual Earnings
-Increase Payroll Tax by 0.5%
-Subject All Wages to Payroll Tax
-Cover Newly-Hired State & Local Workers
-Diversify the Trust Fund to Increase Returns

Additionally, I support allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices as well as including long-term care coverage into Medicare and Medicaid, nationalizing Medicaid so it won't be at the mercy of states reluctant to extend coverage to their most vulnerable, introducing the public option into the Affordable Care Act, as well as making the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent.

Labor Unions: I favor the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act in its entirety, and passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act.

Free Trade: Strongly support free trade, and favor the establishment of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, trans-Atlantic free trade agreements with the European Union and the United Kingdom, and the completion of the Doha Development Round of the World Trade Organization.

Also support transforming the African Growth and Opportunity Act into a free trade agreement.

Energy Independence: I support the federal coal-leasing program; increasing investments into clean coal technology; and strictly regulating the fracking practices of the natural gas industry.  

In addition, I favor expanding research into nuclear fusion; newer forms of nuclear fission technology; increasing investments into hydrogen fuel-cell technologies, and alternative renewable energy sources like wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass among others; better battery storage technology for utilities; rebuilding our electrical grid to make it more compatible with renewables; promoting energy efficiency in government as well as in private industry, using the LEED Green Building Rating System as a model; tax credits for hybrid vehicles; and increasing fuel economy standards for newer vehicles, all the while cutting anthropogenic carbon-dioxide emissions via a bipartisan plan that involves a gradually rising carbon fee and carbon dividends for all American taxpayers.

I also support opening Yucca Mountain as a storage site for spent nuclear waste, as well as increasing our capacity for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel so that they can be reused and to reduce the total amount of waste that would have to be sent there.

Infrastructure: To ensure sustainable economic growth for decades to come, we need to rebuild and expand our infrastructure for the 21st century and beyond.  A key element of that would be the creation of a national infrastructure bank, with a portfolio covering everything from transportation to water/sanitation systems.

Foreign Policy

Advocate a return to the multilateralism and alliances-based system that served us so well during the post-World War 2 era.  Accordingly, I support the ratification of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a return to the Paris Climate Accord, and World Health Organization among other international organizations and agreements, and an expansion of foreign aid through the Millennium Challenge Corporation.  Advocate nurturing and cultivating our relations with India through such agreements like the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement, including India under our nuclear umbrella to prevent an out-of-control nuclear arms race as China expands its nuclear arsenal, and the reversal of the 1947 Partition (with the reunification of India with Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh at least), with the ultimate objective of turning India into a formal ally of the United States alongside Japan and the United Kingdom.  

As part of any peace settlement with a post-Putin Russia, Ukraine and NATO should call for Russian reparation payments to rebuild the country, the return of any and all Ukrainian citizens from Russian captivity, the prompt extradition of Russian military leaders for their war crimes trials before the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the expulsion of Russian troops from Ukraine, Crimea, Transnistria, Belarus, and Georgia, the demilitarization of Kaliningrad, and a (truly) free and fair plebiscite for Crimea under United Nations auspices.  Then, and only then, can Russia hope to return to the community of nations and some semblance of normalcy.  

Following the signing of peace terms, I favor expanding NATO eventually to Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Belarus (once it becomes a democracy), and moving our bases in Germany and Italy to Poland, Romania, and the Baltic states as part of a broader strategy to counter and contain future Russian revanchism.  Support gradually moving US military units from Okinawa to Guam, Malaysia, and the Philippines, making permanent our naval presence in Singapore, and re-establishing our naval base at Subic Bay near Manila to deter Chinese hegemonic ambitions in Southeast Asia.  Support rebuilding and increasing the size of our navy, the modernization of our nuclear arsenal, expansion of our missile defense system to better protect our allies, and keeping our armed forces on the cutting edge technologically to meet any threat posed.
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« Reply #1562 on: March 19, 2024, 10:02:20 AM »
« Edited: March 28, 2024, 11:45:44 AM by MyLifeIsYours »

Social policy:

Abortion: Pro-choice, it should be mandatory protected at all cost. Birth control should be avaliable to all women. Sex education needs to be taught in schools at the middle/high school level.
LGBTQ: Federal protection where they can freely live their lives. Anti-discrimination laws in place for the safety of LGBTQ folks who have received harassment from others.
Death penalty: Abolished at the federal level. No humanie country should be using capital punishment ever, even on the cruelest people in society.
Religion: Secular state where the church is separated from the state. All religions can freely practiced their religion, whatever they are of Abrahamic faith, Eastern faith, new religion, or fully secular in not practicing a religion.
Immigration: Pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living in the states. Make an easy path for immigrants arriving in America. America is an land of immigrants searching for a dream, we ought to continue that prosperous dream for those who are wishing frlor a better life.
Guns: Ban automatic weapons from civilians. Background check on all incoming gun buyers.
Drugs: Fully legalized Marijuana at the federal level. Soften drug laws on certain drugs as LSD. End the war on drugs that has plugged many minority communities.
COVID-19: All people should get a booster shot annually. Masks should be required during COVID season, especially for the vulnerable who have underlying conditions.
Education: Public education should be mandatory for all American youth, K-12. Banned all private education, as charter schools and home schooling will only further stigmatized our young ones from reaching potential.  End standardized testing and instead teach students to graduate based on their grades in class.College should be more affordable for those who have less prvilege, with community college getting a boost in federal funding.
Enthusasia: Support the right for the terminally ill to end their suffering.
Prostitution: Should be legalized and laws in protection for the safety of prostitutes from exploitation.
DC statehood: Fully support
Puerto Rico statehood: Fully support
Police reform: Strip of their powers from abusing them on minority communities. Cops have been getting away too long from attacking on the marginalized parts of society.
Affirmation action: Support
Climate change: A real event in time that is happening globally. We need to take action by investing in renewable energy such as solar panels, with nationalizing the renewable energy being the main goal. We need to stop coal and fossil fuel burning our blue planet. Support the Green New Deal as legislation to stop climate change from spreading. Electric vehicles need to be our new source of transportation.
Surveillance: Abolished the NSA and make such top classified information more known to the public. Wikileaks should be protected to expose the dirty secrets behind our governments.
Civil liberties: Repeal the Patriot Act

Election reform:

Term limits: Both federal electives and judicial judges need to be limited by terms, just as the presidency.
Electoral college: Abolished. Make the popular vote count.
Voter ID: Infringement on voters rights.
Right to vote: All people who have served a sentence in prison should have the right to vote in elections.
Election Day: Make it a national holiday.

Economic:

Healthcare: Single-payer Healthcare should be the rule of law in the States, just as in Canada and some of America closest relatives. Dental should be included in the plan.
Trade: Get out of all free trade agreements, support fair trade with the globally community.
Minimum wage: Make it a living wage so all working class workers can live more comfortably and succeed in their lives.
Unions: The backbone of the working class, the unions are a proud institution that I am happily in solidarity with. We need to support labor unions at all cost, barring law enforcement or similar groups. If some worker wants to start a union they should have the right to unionize. Laws should be in protection so bosses don't fire workers who impose unionization or call to the unfair treatment of their work environment.
Taxes: Raise the taxes on the affluent who can afford to support others in society.
Social security: Protect at all cost. Lower the retirement age from 65 to 60.
Banks: Should become nationalize instead of decentralized  
Welfare: Repeal the welfare act of 1996 and make it a priority to not stigmatized recipients who are living on hard times.

Foreign policy:

United Nations: Support the institution
as way to communicate with the world. The same goes for other multinational organizations.
Foreign aid: Should be increased for third world nations.
NATO: Continuing leavening some support to the organizatio
Israel/Palestine: Support a secular multi-ethnic Palestine state where Arabs and Jews live side by side in peace. Cut funding for Israel and cut ties by getting our embassy out of the apartheid nation. Support the BDS movement to boycott companies doing business with Israel.
China: Support a free Tibet state. Taiwan should be protected. Keep an distant relations with the state.
Nuclear weapons: Sign an international treaty that will hopefully end the most destructive weapons on Earth as we know it.
Russia/Ukraine: Lukewarm support for Ukraine but weary of some of the fascists who lurk around in power.
CIA: Powers should be put to a halt, as they've engaged in many unfortunate catastrophes in the years since the founding.
Department of defense funding: Cut funding here, put more funds in a newly instated Department of Peace, which will resolve conflicts rather than starting them.



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