HRC would have been a great president...but she's never going to run again.

[Ken Burch]

103. A much stronger economic justice program

one that challenges corporate power and the idea of mostly deferring to what business wants.

A much stronger social justice program that acknowledges that there isn't really a bitter rivalry between the social justice and economic justice movements, that recognizes the two justice movements are distinct, but related, and in agreement on the vast majority of issues, with remaining points of disagreement to be worked out through dialog.

A notion of Americanism that recognizes that all citizens and would-be citizens are equally American and that the beliefs and ideals each American holds are all as American as those of the "mainstream" or of any other individual.

A foreign policy that accepts that, while we need to defend our country from external attack, we've done about all we can at the moment with military interventions in other countries or with the further construction of nuclear weapons.

An international economic and military vision that recognizes that we, as a country, have no right to try to force other countries to put our economic needs ahead of the needs and dignity of their own populations, and that it's not our place to try to force other countries to adopt OUR economic model.

And a willingness to actually defend the idea that a lot of things(the fight against poverty, the protection of the climate, the conditions people live under)require both the use of government, and the involvement of people working from below for reasons other than short-term individual gain, and therefore CANNOT be left at the mercy of market values.

That is largely the same list of things I've believed in and worked for throughout my life.