What is your dream for this country?

[kwyjibo]

What is your ideal United States of America like? Short or long term, local, state or national, cynical or optomistic, share your thoughts on what you want your country to be.

[NC_Nurse]

1. Tolerant

would be a nice start.

[Cleita]

2. We really should not accept fascism in

America. I know in a truly tolerant society if there is a truly hard right wing, it has the right to exist. However, we don't seem to allow the opposite extreme, a purely communist hard left wing to exist so why should we allow facism?

[rucky]

3. Use our enormous wealth and influence to bring peace & prosperity

to the world.

[Initech]

4. Rich business criminals in jail.

All of them, everyone who guts their company's pension plans, holds their bank accounts overseas, fires employees so they can hire overseas labor cheaply to make a profit, they should all be locked in a maximum security prison for the rest of their life.

[Scribe]

5. Enlightened

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day” (Thomas Jefferson).

[zalinda]

6. More like Canada n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. A strictly defensive military* with the resulting savings used to

fix this country's many crying domestic needs

*No foreign bases, no weapons systems that don't meet an existing threat, and no macho "projections of American force"

[Golden Raisin]

8. For the immediate present

to be Bush-free. For the long run, to have the BILLIONS squandered on Iraq devoted to education here at home --- money to pay decent salaries to and attract good teachers. Money to have well-equipped schools. Money to raise a generation that can compete with China and not just sit on the couch eating a box of Yodels and watching 'American Idol' or Bill O'Reilly. An educated, discerning, thinking electorate is the hope of the future. I'm not holding my breath.

[The2ndWheel]

9. To not exist

Along with every other state and corporation, if they're even different.

You said dream, and in my dream last night I ran through a wall, so.

[CrispyQ]

10. Revoke corporate personhood rights

& put WE THE PEOPLE back in power.


Proposed Constitutional Amendments to revoke corporate constitutional "rights," reverse Buckley v. Valeo, and establish a right to vote: http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/proposed_constitutional_amendments.html

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