I think, as with any other nation, it ebbs and flows here, depending on who has control of the national narrative. In order to stop the current onslaught of intellectual pestilence and social injustice, we need to: - Purge our airwaves and the internet of purely partisan vectors such as Fox News, The Blaze, Rush Limbaugh, World Net Daily and Tea Party News Network - Insure Net Neutrality - Restore The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR and PBS to their original non-partisan, useful and objective goals - Remove and ban former lobbyists from federal appointments, and ban politicians from becoming lobbyists once they leave public office - Restore fair taxes (substantially increase taxes on the parasites who have not earned their billions but inherited it and/or siphoned it off of those who created the wealth) and get rid of loopholes - Restore strict regulation of corportations - Break down all businesses that are too big to fail and restore regulations against monopolies and anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices - Restore the definition of citizen to apply to people, and corporations as not citizens - Eliminate privatized prisons and essential utilities, returning them to public control - Eliminate charter schools, voucher systems and all other attempts to resegregate or re-institute caste systems of schooling at taxpayer expense (if you think your child deserves a better education, pay for it yourself, or get busy tutoring your own children to supplement what they learn at school) - Nationalize and federally subsidize and standardize public education, making free k through college available to all who want it - Restore high school and college level requirements for civics, government, American and World history courses as well as at least two years in a foreign language. Any and all creationism, abstinence-only, and other religiously-biase courses should be elective-only, but science-based biology and health classes should be required for graduation. - Pay teachers well, give them the resources they need to teach well, give them the benefits that will attract people who want to teach and allow them to do their jobs - Bring back unions. Eliminate Right (not) to Work laws and all other union-crushing laws that favor corporate profits over peoples safety, well-being and reasonable living wages - Get corporate, billionaire and other Big money out of politics. Limit the time allowed for political races, institute public financing of elections, unlock the Democratic and Republican grip on rule of this nation by making public primaries completely non-partisan (No party designation on ballots. Anyone has a right to run for public office) and instituting run-off balloting - Eliminate all corporate welfare (defined as taking taxpayer money while doing absolutely nothing for this nation or its people) and all tax breaks for people and politicians who claim farm subsidies (et al) who have never made their living farming. - Any corporation that has the majority of its factories and jobs overseas, and/or uses off-shore offices, is not an American corporation and should be denied any and all special benefits accorded to American corporations. American corporations are those who produce products in America, employ people in America, have their offices in America and pay taxes to support and maintain the infrastructure that they (and/or their parents and grandparents) have used to become rich in America. In other words, they are invested in America and its welfare, not just their own prosperity. A company is either in or out - and if it is not in, its CEO and board members are free to leave and take their chances with another nation. - Restore suffrage to citizens - one person, one vote, not one dollar, one vote - Eliminate the electoral college - Eliminate gerrymandering by passing laws requiring sane and reasonable congressional districts. - Require every congressional district to have the same number of voting booths per registered voter - Rein in politicians by restoring the job to one of service to the citizens rather than a step to wealth and low-level corporate aristocracy
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:03:25 +0000
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