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Xipe Totec

(44,574 posts)
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 11:17 PM Nov 2018

What should our priorities be, going forward?

Eliminate corruption in government?

Eliminate dark money politics?

Improve voter education?

Improve education, period?

Dismantle large media conglomerates?

Make taxing structure more progressive?

Improve civil rights enforcement?

Implement reasonable gun ownership laws?

I'm just riffing here. Feel free to add totally orthogonal options.


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LonePirate

(14,376 posts)
2. National vote by mail. Increased voter participation will eventually allow us to solve all problems.
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 11:21 PM
Nov 2018

Attach the bill/amendment/provision to must pass legislation so that it is signed into law.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. Put all Rs in a for profit prison
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 11:21 PM
Nov 2018

and have the cost of their internment be paid for by their estates.

Just one for profit prison... just for them... all others need to go.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
11. But protecting the environment and, as a subset to that
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 11:54 PM
Nov 2018

providing subsidies to small, sustainable farms instead of big agri is so boooorrrrinnng! At least it is when I can picture the Rs receiving monthly letters from their financial advisors telling them just how much money they have spent keeping themselves in prison.

AlexSFCA

(6,319 posts)
4. Voting rights nationwide and election security
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 11:31 PM
Nov 2018

automatic voter registration, mail-in option ballot. Every single voter must receive a receipt that the vote was counted. In Cali I get the receipt and can check online that my ballot was accepted. If it was not I would get a notification and the reason why not.

Nothing else is nearly as important. Voting accessibility is elections integrity is the basis of democracy.

lark

(26,100 posts)
5. Protect Pre-Existing Conditions!
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 11:43 PM
Nov 2018

Infrastructure repair
Min Wage increase
Protect Mueller or if can't - get his information public
Improve gun laws in reasonable way
Net Neutrality

RockRaven

(19,638 posts)
9. Voting. Everything - Gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, integrity, registration, access, ease...
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 11:45 PM
Nov 2018

No good policy survives if you let those bastards regain the majority/White House and repeal/rescind it.

The best way to make Democratic/progressive gains and retain them is to have more voters vote and have their votes count fairly.

msongs

(74,010 posts)
10. exactly. when repubs cannot cheat they will wither away to permanent minority status nt
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 11:49 PM
Nov 2018
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