If you could change one thing about America, what would you change?

[gredinger]

Just one per post. Try to reply to threads if someone already said the one thing you'd change.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Get rid of the Electoral College

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Take dark money out of elections.

[FoxNewsSucks]

17. All money, actually

I was gonna say "deport all republicans to Somalia or Saudi Arabia within 24 hours", but unless we get money out of elections, that would probably only be a temporary fix.

[Squinch]

4. Welcome to DU.

[gredinger]

9. Interesting forum

Seems like it's a fairly strong Democratic base, but the style is really old style.

Any idea which platform it uses? Obviously its not SMF.

[snort]

5. My underwear.

[gredinger]

10. Ask not what your country can do for you

— ask what you can do for your country.

Please change your own underwear ._.

[Shermann]

6. I would change only being able to change one thing

[gredinger]

7. "everything is one thing"

[sinkingfeeling]

8. The government.

[jg10003]

11. proportional representation in the senate

[Deb]

12. The hate.

[mrs_p]

13. The deep inherent racism

On which this country was built

[Solomon]

16. Nothing else matters without this

being fixed. Its the root of all evil here.

[Freddie]

14. Universal health care

That we’d started it at the same time the UK did and never had the employer-based system at all. Then it would just be a fact of life and not the most pressing issue (IMO) we have today.
I have a cousin in England and we discuss this on occasion. He said the people gripe about the NHS but any politician (no matter how right-wing) who even suggests trying an “American system” - kiss of death to their career.

[texasfiddler]

15. Greenhouse gas emissions eliminated

[hangaleft]

18. I'd implement a utopian egalitarian socialist economy & society

I’m not saying everybody should earn the same income or live in equal housing. I’m saying everyone should have an opportunity for a good education, whether as a physician or an auto mechanic; everyone should have access to quality healthcare; everyone should be well fed; and everyone should have a safe and comfortable home to live in.

[SlogginThroughIt]

19. Election rules

Specifically I would change the campaign funding and switch to rank choice voting.

[Tracer]

20. The Military.

Cut funding in half. Close unneeded bases (who needs 800+?).

[EarthFirst]

21. Healthcare

I personally find that the number one biggest economic hurdle that we face as Americans is our dysfunctional healthcare and insurance programs...