--Expanding Social Security.
--Making it harder for CEOs to block workers from joining unions.
--Reestablishing postal banks in our public post offices to give low-income families affordable banking and an alternative to predatory lenders.
--Encouraging new power plants to use renewable energies rather than shale gas from BigOil's destructive fracking wells.
--Expanding community health centers to reach 25 million more uninsured families, requiring Medicare to negotiate with BigPharma to lower our drug prices, and encouraging states to provide universal health care.
--Decriminalizing marijuana, eliminating for-profit prisons and detention centers, and abolishing the death penalty.
--Eliminating SuperPacs, moving to public financing of elections, providing automatic voter registration, and making election day a national holiday.
Of course, party platforms are not actual laws and programs, but statements of principles and intent. They are important as blueprints for organizing grassroots support and as specific makers for holding elected officials accountable. Making it all happen is up to us, for progressive change always has to be pushed from the bottom up -- so let's get moving.
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