2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: For my part in trying to help unity I am making a resolution [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)The whole scale has shifted to the Right. On what issues do you disagree with on the left? The Center now embraces not regulating the banks or Monsanto or Big Pharma. The Center now wants to save SS by cutting benefits. The Center wants and aggressive foreign and large defense budget. The Center wants to kill American jobs by moving manufacturing jobs overseas. The Center supports tough drug laws (against marijuana) to keep their Prisons For Profits profitable.
Here is what the left wants. Point out where you disagree.
We want to Strengthening Social Security (e.g., raising the cap)
We are Opposed to job killing "Free Trade" agreements
We are opposed to fracking for oil company profits over people's water
We want to help college students afford college (telling them to get a job doesn't cut it)
We support making major corps pay their fair share of taxes
We want to end the unregulated domestic spying and making the NSA/CIA Security State have oversight.
Also end drone killing of terrorist "suspects" in foreign lands (100 innocents killed for each suspect)
We are for reducing the defense budget
We are for taking a hard stand against torture and indefinite detention.
We support the end of the militarization of our local police forces.
We want to end Prisons for Profits
We support legalizing marijuana esp. for medical use.
We believe in the need for funding rebuilding our neglected infrastructure.
We support single payer health insurance.
We want to see the regulation of Wall Street (e.g. reinstate Glass-Steagall)
We want to break up the big bank and media monopolies.
We are against American Exceptionalism and an excuse for neocon imperialism.