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I refuse to believe any of this is actually endorsed or supported by the Democratic Party of The United States.
It’s all great. And I’d love to be wrong. But there’s no way.
I refuse to believe any of this is actually endorsed or supported by the Democratic Party
I don’t see it claiming to be.
It’s also things dems refuse to acknowledge are needed when in power
Sounds great.
Hope you’ve got your guns, because you’ll need them for any of that.
Voting is just for deciding what colour tie your right-wing authoritarianism wears.
Lmao. Unless step number one includes some guillotines, you might as well be asking people if they’d like to go to paradise.
Pure fantasy.
Fuck off.
No.
Dream big. Get balls.
Yes.
A Reality TV star who diddled kids, hid top secret documents in his bathroom, and openly agrees with all of the USA’s enemies is now President, jail free, and has ham fisted the stupidest people alive into a laughablely unreal kakistocracy that nothing else in human history compares to.
This is the fantasy of the biggest idiots alive and it has very much become real. And now that CEO murders are up significantly more than usual, you wanna believe paradise can’t be achieved because the idiots did it first?
Please. It’s a numbers game. And there are far fewer idiots than those who are now suffering from them.
Look man, what do you want? We can do this, or we can go to war. I want to see a fash nailed to every tree, but thats still a big ask.
All of this should be simple for any sane politician to get on board with, and yet it’s somehow revolutionary.
That minimum wage pretty slim for a wish list…
Tie minimum wage to inflation. Tie rent to it, too. Im suck of having this discussion. They stonewall on purpose.
Yeah, the minimum wage isn’t so much the problem anymore (maybe in some areas, but definitely not all), it’s the cost of living. If we raise minimum wage, the cost of everything else just gets raised to offset it, particularly the cost of rent/property. At this point, we need to enforce rent caps before raising the wage anymore.
I’m impressed with this, someone has clearly given it more than 30s of thought
treating unrealized gains used for collateral as income avoids most of the complicated issues around wealth taxes while still enforcing that you have to pay your fair share if you want to live a life of luxury.
Congressional pay caps seem like a good way to align their incentives with helping all their constituents rather than just the donors and median mean that passing a real minimum wage law is to their direct benefit. No idea how you would get around the increased risk of bribery though.
Fixing gerrymandering, replacing fptp and scrapping the electoral college evens out the voting power so an election is less likely to be swung imby a handful of close districts in swing states.
Striking down Citizens united would (could?) clean up campaign finance making it harder for fossil fuel lobbies (for example) to purchase power.
I don’t know how feasible it is given some of it is federal, some of it is state level and I imagine some of it requires ammending the constitution, but I would consider any candidate who ran on some/all of these to be a good choice focused on fixing the root causes of a lot of the problems the US is facing.
Non-American here: is it possible to objectively outlaw gerrymandering while still having the ability to redraw/create/merge districts?
I thought you do need that mechanism as populations shift from rural to urban (or reverse) so that it’s always the same number of people per congressperson or however it works.
Also non-american but subject to a bunch of us-centricn news anyway 😅
Good question you need to be able to re-draw boundaries, but re-drawing boundaries shouldn’t have a material effect on election results (assuming the same people vote the same way.
I have heard a few proposals like “districts must be regular polygons” or avoiding moving people from contested seats into safe seats.
Neither of them are perfect for a number of reasons (reliance on perdictive models, ways to work around etc.) so the common approach is to appoint an independent redistricting commission to handle it and have them look at a bunch of metrics to figure out if it’s fair.
The nice thing is a perfect solution isn’t even necassary for improvement, just preventing horrorshows like Texas’s 33rd (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas’s_33rd_congressional_district) would help.
The main problem is that a few states passed ballot initiatives to combat gerrymandering, the politicians then undermined or straight up ignored them and then in 2019 the supreme court decided that it wasn’t within the jurisdiction of the federal courts to hear cases around gerrymandering. Funnily enough every single one of the justices who decided they were fine with republicans germandering efforts were appointed by republican presidents who could have guessed?
So now it’s de-facto legal; states run by the democrats are doing similar things and the clearly-acting-in-good-faith pundits on the right are screaming “look both parties are the same see! See!”
Err… I may have strayed from my point a little, but yes IRCs are the way to do this provided they have sufficient legal backing to see that their decisions are enforced.
Thanks for your reply! The 33rd is a great example of how perfect is the enemy of good. So yeah I still think you can’t fix this objectively, but you (politicians) can try a lot harder not to be a corrupt asshole about it.
Capping congressional salary that low is a bad idea - especially with the cost of maintaining homes in their district and DC both. It heavily encourages corruption.
I had a good family friend who was a small business owner. He was the local AC repair guy who worked super hard and built a thriving business. He eventually got into politics and was elected to the US House of Representatives. I was proud of my friend, because while we didn’t agree on a lot of political issues, he was fundamentally a good person and would be different than all the corrupt assholes in government.
He quickly ran into financial issues trying to maintain 2 households - especially since his wife was essentially forced to leave her job to be with him full-time as he went back and forth between his district and DC.
So what did he do? He started accepting help from donors. Then special interests. He started becoming more and more beholden to them as they supported him, and he started getting a taste of the Washington lifestyle.
Now he’s as corrupt as corrupt gets, and I’m ashamed to have called him a friend. Motherfucker even voted against election certification on January 6th.
I truly believe that if Congress paid better, more “Average Joe” politicians could thrive in Washington without having to take dirty money, and my family friend may have been saved.
“Maintaining a home in DC”
Require them to live in a government-owned dorm in Washington. It should be a bit like a shitty state school, cinderblock walls, communal showers, etc. They MAY NOT own property in or near the district and MUST stay in their appointed dorm.
We cannot let them believe they’re elite or deserving of anything.
Capping congressional salary that low is a bad idea
Exactly. Giving someone immense power without giving them pay reflecting that power is just an unstable incentive for corruption.
There are some downstream effects, too. Federal law caps regular federal employee pay to formulas based on the Congressional pay, so plenty of senior managers and Ph.D.-level specialists have their pay capped because Congress hasn’t given itself a raise since 2009, all while inflation has gone up by about 50% in those 16 years. It used to be that federal employees would put up with lower salaries for better job security and belief in the mission, but the current administration has basically torn down those assumptions.
In theory Congress could lift the caps on federal salaries without giving themselves a raise, but I don’t think that’s very likely.
UBI would be nice too, especially as the reliance on AI/automation becomes more prevalent
I support this platform. Expect nothing less, accept nothing less. Look at the pipe dreams on the other side of the aisle they’ve been able to enact. Let’s swing the hammer hard the other way now.
Cap CEO pay 35x lowest paid full-time employee
Remove “Full-Time” from that, it’s an obvious loophole that would make the point moot.
Yeah… suddenly everyone would be a ‘contract worker’
You forgot ban lobbying.
So… I was gonna say that’s Citizens United, but… I realized that’s only for campaigns.
Anyone know what mechanism allows lobbyists to have the access they do? Or is it just that there’s nothing barring it?
I think the reason it was allowed in the first place was so that experts in their fields could argue pros and cons of bills associated with their field(s) of expertise. Then businesses started paying wolves in sheeps’ clothing to go to Congress to present pros/cons for their best interests. Anyway you go about it, this is something that will be needed in some way or form and will always be sought out to corrupt, since elected officials can’t be experts in everything.
Not entirely sure what a good resolution for this problem is, other than make a law to make it illegal to misrepresent science/data/logic for the sole purpose of benefitting somebody paying/gifting/bribing you, and then actually enforce that law. Hate being a defeatist about it, but I don’t think that’ll ever happen in my lifetime since that’s what politicians do in a regular basis. They aren’t supposed to take bribes, but they do, and there are never penalties for them doing so.
Makes sense, and I agree on it being difficult to prevent corruption.
Maybe we do something similar to the court system? But that means that lobbyists would need to discuss things as part of a specific event rather than ad hoc, but I think that’s a good thing. Make lying the crime of perjury. Require individuals to prove their expertise on the matter. Might make things even slower, though… hrm…
Make the government fearful of the people.
Make the government fearful of the people.
Isn’t that what the NRA claims the 2nd ammendment is all about?
The French invented the perfect device.
Okay, hold up. Not all of these are federal.
Ranked choice in all elections - that’s a state thing.
As for the congress trading and income caps, we want to do that for state representatives as well, right?
I’m guessing the billionaire and mega church taxes would also need to be state level, since there’s nothing necessitating them crossing state lines.
I’m all in, but wanna make sure the effort is in the right areas.
Also, I prefer approval voting over ranked choice. And let’s covert the House of Representatives to proportional representation instead of district-based, and let’s do the same for state level representatives. And let’s trash the Senate, or at least change it such that small groups of people don’t have significantly more power just because they live in the middle of nowhere.
Also, donation info? Website or something to participate? The hell kind of call to action poster has no call to action??? I really wanna get in on this shit.
Not all of these are federal.
I don’t see where the poster claims it is.
There will be state elections in 2028 too.
Fair point. Thinking on Project 2025 more, I guess that wasn’t federal-only either. Nevermind, then!
Sure, all of this would be great. There’s no chance of it happening, though. We’re at a point where either we rise up and take what we want or it’ll never change. And we’re basically incapable of rising up. Prove me wrong!
Can’t prove you wrong, because you’re right.
Also, these are nice goals but a project needs a properly fleshed out plan with Steps on how to achieve those. It’ll all be hampered by the fact that judicial is heavily swayed to the right with no term limits and getting that passed will be impossible. It’s the lynch point needed to achieve everything else.
The judicial branch siding with the executive branch on nearly everything constitutes a constitutional crisis in my mind even tho the official definition is the executive branch not heeding the judicial branch’s decisions. The balance of power is still gone.
Bring back civil rights
