1.Capital Punishment - blatant disregard for life especially in our unjust legal system - also more expensive than life in prison or a college education
2.Global Warming - yes it would likely happen even without us pesky humans, but that doesn't mean we need not address our blatant disregard for the commons out of immediate greed gratification.
3.Marijuana Legalization - If a doctor can proscribe a synthetic version of Marijuana to patients for a variety of ailments, then why is the herb illegal? It's a plant people, it is proven to not kill you and is less addictive than caffeine, sugar, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, etc. Granted i don't want the cigarette companies making a fortune off of marijuana so maybe decriminalization a la Switzerland and Netherlands is a better idea
4.Right to Die - everyone is going to die, some say we all choose when. what right do we have to stop someone from dying?
5.School Prayer - if you want to pray at school, fine. If not, fine. No one should be forced to do something they personally don't believe in - freedom of religion is also freedom from religion.
6.Abortion - a choice no one likes to make and would be better off having been educated about sex and sexuality before pregnancy became an option as well as being provided with access to birth control.
7.Cuba - i've always wanted to go. With the cold war over, why do we continue to have an embargo against Cuba? They aren't doing anything that China doesn't do to its citizens and we love China so much we gave them permanent trade relations!
8.Education - seriously lacking except to create mindless drones who will work for slave wages because they want to eat and not live on the street holding a fantasy that they can work their way up the class ladder - IT RARELY HAPPENS!
9.Flag Burning - if it belongs to the person burning it, then so what? No theft or destruction of another's property is involved. Nationalism breeds hatred and violence.
10.Separation of Church and State - if the church and state practiced what they preached this would be a non-issue.
11.Taxes - eliminate regressive taxation, institute a peace tax aka religious freedom tax, require corporations to pay their fair share of income tax, create a progressive income tax with a minimum based on a living wage - if you make less than a living wage, you pay no tax, if you make $2 million a year, you pay a larger percentage of your income than someone making $50k/yr.
12.Welfare - end Corporate welfare today!
13.United Nations - it might work too if eleanor roosevelt was still alive and whipping those boys into shape!
14.Electoral College - in its present form, outdated and unconstitutional. if we bound them to vote for the publics choices in proportion to the popular vote as spelled out in Article XIV Section 2 of the constitution, it might be okay.
15.Foreign Policy - Build trust that has not occurred in my lifetime with other countries and work to raise the quality of life of all humans on the planet - clean water and air for all!
16.Free Trade - people over profits - Fair Trade not Free Trade!
17.Gay Rights - gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, and transgendered rights - if one class of people has rights that another class of people do not, we are not a just society. it used to be your skin color, gender, ethnicity, property ownership, etc. Sexual orientation and gender identity are a class of people still without equal access to government benefits and privileges because those in power deem them immoral, unworthy, etc. They used to say that black people were not human, women weren't capable of the responsibility of voting, and neither were polish, irish, italian, etc., or men who didn't own property.
18.Gun Control - the purpose of the bill of rights article was to prevent the government from being able to establish military might over the citizenry in order to overthrow a duly elected government. Now the government has nukes and what all else, there is not much we citizens can do in this regard any longer. we can stop providing guns to dictators and governments. and i still don't think someone needs a machine gun to hunt with - come on, what kind of hunting are you doing? not the kind to get sustenance for your family with regard to the life you are taking.
19.Illegal Immigration - address the why: why are people risking their lives to come here illegally? see globalization and free trade. If you want to militarize the border with Mexico only, start thinking about how you would feel if you had little choice but to leave your family and go to Canada in order to get a job so you could feed your kids. Would you want to go? Would you do whatever it took? Would you wish daily that you could just go back and live a comfortable life in your home country? Likely.
20.Minimum Wage - living wage! [universallivingwage.org] |