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RiverLover

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1. Here are a few ideas (12)

Sun Jan 25, 2015, 07:38 PM

Jan 2015

1. Revive Sustainable Economic Growth, Creating Jobs for All.

2. Invest in America's Infrastructure and in New Jobs for the 21st Century.

3. Make Work Pay - and Fight to Reduce Inequality in America.

4. If the Rising American Electorate Succeeds, America Succeeds.

5. Guarantee Access to High Quality Public Education for All.

6. Strengthen and Expand Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

7. Make the Rich and Corporations Pay Their Fair Share.

8. Stop Bad Trade Deals, and Balance Trade Based on Global Labor Rights.

9. Reform the Financial System to Safely Serve the Productive Economy.

10. Invest in Energy Technologies that Drive a Sustainable Economy.

11. Reduce the Military Budget and Invest at Home.

12. Strengthen Democracy.

More details here~

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-hickey/the-new-populist-movement_b_4899347.html

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The New Democratic Party Platform? [View all] kentuck Jan 2015 OP

Here are a few ideas (12) RiverLover Jan 2015 #1

K&R!!! If the dems did this as a platform, I think they would see huge numbers of Americans RKP5637 Jan 2015 #2

I would be surprised if everything except number 8 wasn't already in the last party platform BainsBane Jan 2015 #8

Maybe just a bit of overlap, but no, its different~ RiverLover Jan 2015 #9

And of course it's the specifics that make all the difference BainsBane Jan 2015 #12

That's the one. I'll fight in the trenches for that Populist_Prole Jan 2015 #17

Excellent question! I've wondered more and more what the democratic party RKP5637 Jan 2015 #3

Contact your local DNC chair and your state chair and volunteer to be on the platform CK_John Jan 2015 #4

+1 Recursion Jan 2015 #13

The counter question to that is: sadoldgirl Jan 2015 #5

"if they are not binding" YoungDemCA Jan 2015 #11

If we cannot agree to a platform...? kentuck Jan 2015 #6

That is the point of going to your local caucus BainsBane Jan 2015 #7

No, no, you've got it all wrong! YoungDemCA Jan 2015 #10

I'm a slow learner BainsBane Jan 2015 #16

+1000 Recursion Jan 2015 #14

Here's the amazing bit: you can actually help decide this if you show up Recursion Jan 2015 #15

It'll be whatever the Turd Way wants it to be ... Scuba Jan 2015 #18