2. Campaign Finance Reform to clean up elections, along with the abolition of electronic bribery machines
3. Ending the trend of unstudied and inconsiderate deregulation and privatization which outsources the civil sovereignty to stockholders and allows private mercenaries and weapons manufacturers undue influence within our civil government
4. Restoring Civil Liberties, abolishing torture and kidnapping and increasing Transparency in government
5. Ending the occupation of Iraq and allowing the Iraqi people the rights to the oil they sit on, and the right to autonomy, both economic and political
6. Retracting Cold War forces stationed around the globe and diverting government spending away from offensive military power back to education, healthcare, and domestic security, to divert the path taken over the past 50 years.
7. Crafting real energy solutions that free the U.S. from undue foreign influence
8. Restraining the flow of corporate capital and checking the weapons and security industries, which depend on injustice and conflict alone in order to profit, and who compromise the integrity of government administrators and officials tasked with decisions of war and peace.
This is the progressive agenda. This should be the American agenda.
The election of a president is not necessarily a change in government, and while Cheney Co. has not irreversibly destroyed the Constitution, justice, or the desire of most Americans to strive for domestic peace and prosperity, since those things will always outlive the aims and memories of shallow, profit-seeking, panderers to foreign tyrants and traitors to their own country, any additional foreign conflict will perhaps insure that the crimes of the administration become the collective crimes of the nation, as a whole, since a larger war will prevent us from domestic justice by requiring us to face down Iranian retaliation and a world in flames.
Never, never, in the entire history of this nation, has impeachment been more urgent to the survival of the republic. The political and psychological movements of the past 50 years have uprooted and neutered the democratic polity, inflated the government and the military to massive proportions, and aggrandized a small group of very dangerous criminals who are now openly raising private armies for private profits with the public treasury. If they are allowed to slip back into the shadows or retire unpunished then we will have allowed a dangerous precedent which will truly be recorded as the last nail in the coffin of the American republic.
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