Comment on US Government Official refuses to answer basic question

• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For there to be a real path out of this they need to be willing to strike a stake into the heart of the republican vampire party:

  • Fully reform the supreme court with sane people who will overturn citizens united

  Additionally like 3 of the following:

  • Commit to passing some real ass electoral reforms to enforce the 14th ammendment.
  • Commit to reforming the way congressional districts are drawn or eliminate them entirely with proportional voting mandates
  • Bring DC and Puerto Rico in as states. Threaten to offer cuba statehood and reparations if republicans invade it based on some kind of generational grudge held by rich casino owner’s grandparents.
  • ensure the electoral college is handled on a proportional basis, if not eliminated entirely.

  And then looking to the future:

  • address the corruption stemming from the billionaire classes
  • use billionaire money to directly pay reparations to people placed in camps by trump admin
  • prosecute ice agents involved in murders.
  • ensure all tech companies remotely linked to social media, search, surveillance or data collection are run as non profit utilities under laws similar to those we require for power companies.

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is great. I wrote a platform in 2016 that included a lot of this, but I realize now that I should update my stance on these things to accommodate the new landscape.

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  • jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What do you think Citizens United did? Overturning it would have very little effect. The things you don’t like about money in politics, super PACs, corporate person hood existed before that case and are heavily entrenched.

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Prior to citizens united is the largest of a series of court cases that skewed power to the ultra wealthy. The mention of that is a starting point but beyond that it would allow more strict regulation of how corporations can spend their money.

      Realistically there’s over a dozen supreme court cases that need to be overturned and if you want an idea what those are at this point I highly recommend a podcast like 5-4

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Unpopular opinion — The electoral college and Senate can stay as-is. At a glance it might seem weird to give votes to land, but on the other hand you shouldn’t want every state between Utah and the Mississippi to become the country’s public dumping ground.

    Yeah, there are problems, but the other reforms might be enough. Overturning Citizens United, cleansing the Supreme Court of RV bribes and corruption, eliminating gerrymandering, and proportional elections should cover enough that we don’t need to eliminate Nebraska’s votes.

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I actually didn’t mention removing the senate, so if you want my opinion on the senate it’s this: the senate and house should be rolled into a single electoral body that would essentially have a shape similar to the electoral college.

      Though I think expanding the size of both the house and senate would increase the number of people it had to bribe to block laws so I would also be in favor of expanding the senate to 5 per state and making those elections proportional and ending the idea of celebrity senators.

      It would be better to eliminate the senate but realistically I think the only way to do that would be to implement a national initiative process first that bypasses state legislatures from voting on constitutional amendments because there is no world where small state legislatures in enough small states would give up federal power.

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• Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Either way you’re fucked. Both parties want to continue burning fossil fuels and both parties are blatently beholden to Israel’s suicidal assault on the world.

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