Politicians love tellings us what they’ll do, but what are the things that you wish they’d get off their a$$ and do something about?
Just a few of the things I’d like to see addressed here in the US:
- Universal healthcare
- Climate change
- Income inequality
- Reproductive rights
- Electoral reform (use popular vote for president, end gerrymandering)
- Restore fairness doctrine & regulate social media
- Stopping the rise of fascism and the far-right
- Restrict presidential power (no kings/dictators)
- SCOTUS reform (end lifetime terms)
The environment. That’s really it, everything else is a lower priority to me, because fuck over the world and you have nothing. As far as what might be possible to do with laws and government actions, I would like to see oil taxed like a vice tax, money thrown towards clean energy & transportation and accounting rules changed to include all costs now “externalized”. So if you dump waste in a river, the cost of cleanup falls always entirely on the company that dumped, besides the penalties and jail time, if you are cutting down old trees, the cost is not just the planting of a young tree, but includes cost of time to grow it, but also just that these costs need to be in the prices of goods, as now there is distortion. Clean things should be cheaper not more expensive.
Making so an ‘adult disabled since childhood’ can get married to someone who isn’t also an ‘adult disabled since childhood’ without losing all their benefits and ssdi stuff would be nice.
There’s all that other stuff, but that’s important to me.
Maybe also up ssdi amounts. And make Medicare not suck ass.
- Consumer Rights
- Worker’s Rights
- Universal Healthcare
- Copyright/Intellectual Property Issues
- Make the Internet a Utility
- Give the FTC some teeth i.e more authority so that they can have better chances to stop big acquisitions and monopolies from happening
Election reforms. IRV, public campaign financing, nix the electoral college, proportional representation, etc.
Break up monopolies.
Healthcare.
Enforce fairness and ethical journalism.
Regulate social media. (Influencers, advertisements, disinformation.)
You know I would love to have many things before this but I don’t think we can get anything else meaniingfully done till we squash the current corporate situation. so number one is is not just to get rid of citizens united but enshrine in no uncertain terms in the constitution that rights are guaranteed for living people of the country and all other entities get rights as given by non constitutional law which can never supercede or even be considered on par with the tights of living people. That should followed with massive regulation and getting back to a decently progressive taxation system. That might allow us to then deal with our most pressing issues decently but without it our systems essentially rigged.
All branches and levels of government collaborate to give me a single book no bigger than the bible that contains all the law that applies to me. It’s got the actual verbatim word for word active law revised at the source so even I can read and understand.
Climate change. On our current course, the best case scenario is famine, war, and a really shitty world for billions of people. The worst case scenario is self-perpetuating cycles that wipe out our civilization and maybe humanity.
It’d be cool if those didn’t happen.
Reforming laws to simply and condense them into Codes again, devolving the power to choose salaries of public workers back to departments, schools and hospitals, getting more hunting licenses to get rid of the excess wild boars we have
Their own ethics!
Billionaires. They need to be taxed to pay for their externalities, including healthcare and climate change, and poverty too. There’s no way to earn $1B from labor, it must be stolen from the labor of others.
Election fairness. Ranked choice voting, equal access, federal holiday to vote, overturn citizens united, eliminate electoral college, statehood for all citizens, redraw districts by geography, not demographics.
Bodily autonomy as a constitutional amendment. Covers abortion, assisted suicide, tattoos, drug use, plastic surgery, vasectomy, and any other voluntary medical procedures.
Investing in society. Education, healthcare, transportation, grid-scale clean energy storage, environmental health and remediation.
I like you. @[email protected] for President!
I am eligible. Maybe I’ll start a webpage for 2028. Though I doubt it’s possible without lots of money.
They need to outlaw EDDM advertising, cap the price of beer at $5 per 16 oz., and tax the rich like we did in “the golden age of America”, the 50’s, that being 91%.
Corruption/Lobbying
The war in Palestine
The Supreme Court
Climate Change
Universal healthcare
Congressmen trying to overturn electionsWill update if anything else comes up
Single payer, ending the Palestinian genocide, election integrity, dissolving the DNC and GOP, the entire government firing themselves and not running for re-election.