Stay with original notion. Applicable at all times, all locales. Written from the standpoint of how people feel, what they need. Coates and _____ remind you to do this. A generative framework. Can still have a Decl. of Inter. as introduction and Bill of Equality, Limitation & Ecology at the end. Democracy Unchained intro. Democracy […]
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Introduction
In America’s bizarre electoral system, some votes are more equal than others. the candidates don’t care about the issues that matter to me and the only time a candidate reaches out is for my credit card number. Every two years, I think about how thoroughly I am being ignored, and each time I’m more infuriated […]
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Declaration of Interdependence
Thomas Merton 118 Everything that exists is both a unique individual… Bad land use tied to malnutrition, diseases like the virus, species extinction, wildfire, natural disasters, That’s a whole Alexander-like book right there, just keeping it organic. Overpopulation contribute to bad land use… Pg 184 Decline of environmental health tied to decline of democracy. Not […]
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Foreign Policy
Limit globalization
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Truthfulness Required
Danger of Lies. Removal of any public figure who lies. Find that quote about how lies unmoor people from how they take their bearings. Like having a parent that habitually lies. Social media can be shut down if enough verifiable untruths invade. Can’t there be an algorithm that shuts down the poster??? Hucksterberg says AI […]
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Land Use
Dem Unc. pg 124 “Underyling all civilizaton, ancient of modern, is the land itself, the complex mix..Bad land use leads not just to malnutrition and wars but to internal conflict…and depotism. Those treated harshly by nature came to be seen as victims, not as foolish actors.’ 127 Land use reports.. the need to do what […]
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No Military Police
again, focus on the way it makes people feel.
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Limit Technology
The idea that AI can become a danger is rooted in the fact that AI systems pursue their goals, whether or not those goals are what we really intended — and whether or not we’re in the way. “You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice,” Stephen Hawking wrote, “but if you’re […]
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Term Limits
Congress Supreme Court
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Nationalize Industies
Limit fossil fuel extraction and nationalize FF companies
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Limit Population
The tricky one. Community service. Can’t buy your way out. Lose right to hold public office at 3, lose right to vote at 4
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Limit Warmaking Powers
America Has No Reason to Be So Powerful Ezra & Ta-Nahisi The core power of the state is it’s exclusive control—it’s monopoly on—of the infliction of violence. Drones. Military. Death penalty. And the US wants a monopoly on global violence. When an adult does something bad to me, I do or want to do something […]
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Cognitive Liberty
Drug Legalization all drug related prisoners are hereby freed
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Limit Capitalism
Corporate charters Again, use surveillance technology to monitor corporations. Thomas Daffron’s consulting firm reaped huge contracts thanks to bills Collins authored at key Senate committee Limit Tech/Corp/Gov access to Media Control
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Use technology to monitor Gov.
They are the only ones who should be spied upon!! Turn it around on them. This info available to all citizens. Yes!!
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Enable More Parties
Even though more are not prohibited. Fund their start. I once considered the toothless democratic party to be hapless — that they simply stupidly set the stage for political dramas that they lose or barely win back time and time again. not anymore. in this case, for instance, re: barrett, a couple points argue against […]
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Income inequality a betrayal of the Govt.
Declare today’s income inequality a betrayal of the Govt. to the people. Ebolish hunger and homelessness. Feeding America should not have to exist. Thank them, and take over the burden. Tax reform to pay for this. 95% income over 5 million. Estate tax. Limit wealth accumulation. Create and define a redistibution mechanism Redistrubte existing […]
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Honor Native American Treaties
Declare it a holocuaust and a betrayal. https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/9/23/20872713/native-american-indian-treaties In August, hundreds of Indigenous peoples gathered in Sioux City, Iowa, for the two-day Frank LaMere Presidential Forum. People had traveled from as far as Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico to Wampanoag communities in Massachusetts, eager for a chance to be heard. Aside from Charles, eight Democrats, including frontrunners Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth […]
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Abolish Lobbying & Dark Money
Dingle The elimination of money in campaigns. Period. Elections, like military service—each is an example of duty, honor, and service to country—should be publicly funded. Can you imagine if we needed to rely on wealthy donors to fund the military? I know there are those who genuinely believe in privatizing everything. They are called profiteers. Public […]
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Enshrine right to vote
Make easier to change. Majority vote Dingle An electoral system based on full participation. At age 18, you are automatically registered to vote. No photo ID, no residency tests, no impediments of any kind. Advances in technology can make this happen effortlessly. Yes, voting should be restricted only to American citizens. Strict protections against foreign meddling […]
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Limit Presidential Powers
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/last-exit-trump-autocracy/616466/ Americans have lavished enormous powers on the presidency. They have also sought to bind those powers by law. Yet the Founders of the republic understood that law alone could never eliminate the risks inherent in the power of the presidency. They worried ceaselessly about the prospect of a truly bad man in the office—a […]
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Limit and protect media
DINGLE The protection of an independent press. This is where the Founding Fathers got it exactly right. Jefferson said, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” The Nazis’ propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, replaced […]
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Abolish Senate
Ebolish Senate second mini rebellion needed. https://www.gq.com/story/the-case-for-abolishing-the-senate The United States Senate exists today because the Constitution’s framers did not trust America to function without it. Unlike the House of Representatives, the “people’s House,” whose members were expected to be as prone to extremism and shortsightedness as the constituents they would represent, the plan was for […]
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Abolish Electoral College
Because of these state winner-take-all statutes, presidential candidates have no reason to pay attention to the issues of concern to voters in states where the statewide outcome is a foregone conclusion. In 2012, as shown on the map, all of the 253 general-election campaign events were in just 12 states, and two-thirds were in just 4 […]
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