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4. Term Limits. - I'd rather deal with the corruption & incompetence by means of agreed upon standards than just throw away incalculably huge chunks of real value simply on some time criteria, especially if that time criteria is not relevant to the whole context upon which it is imposed, i.e. too short.

5. A Fair Tax Code. - FAIR TAX, nuf said? This one is dog-whistling.

6. Healthcare for All. - Corporations profitting off of the sick and dying still implied here - AND - using those profits to control "health" "care" politically or otherwise.

11. Ending of Perpetual War for Profit. - This addresses only the corporate division of MIC, leaving the government division in control of War Slavery.

12. Emergency Reform of Public Education. - Things are justified by the use of "Emergency" that not only would people not consider otherwise, but also could very definitely result in the un-necessary loss of real values/"life and limbs", and not just to students. When you tell the patient that it's an emergency, the patient gets a whole lot less choices, including less choice in what professionals will make what decisions.

16. Ending the Fed. - Red meat for the de-regulators that got us into so much of this mess in the first place. Authentically AUDIT the Fed. Create creative co - operative financial entities, built upon Adam Smith's definition of Real Value in The Wealth of Nations.

17. Abolish the Electoral College and Enact Uniform Election Rules. - The disproportionate power of more populated, but geographically smaller, areas of the country IS and issue that makes SOMETHING like the Electoral College NECESSARY. Reform is necessary amongst both aspects: EC & Election Rules.

20. Reinstitution of Civil Rights. - Civil Rights ARE institutionalized in our Constitution and laws, so I'm not sure what "reinstitute" means, unless it is a position that says people should not have to take responsibility FOR THEIR OWN CHOICES, unless it is a position that says there should be NO CONSEQUENCES for dangerous/threatening behaviors. The group makes its choices and individuals make THEIR OWN choices; BOTH must know and abide by the consequences of those choices. The principles that support consequences are already fairly well established, e.g. "It is illegal to shout fire in a darkened and crowded theater" and that would be especially if that theater is LOCKED by contextual threats beyond its own control.