? Homelessness in America is appalling.
FOREIGN POLICY
? Domestic abuse is bad enough -- the way we treat the ones we love at home: see homelessness, no med insurance, poverty up the yinyang, kids in cages, cops up to the knee in George Floyds every 10 days or so, followed by vigils and riots -- that we don't to export our 'tough love' to other places, because, as Obama once said, they can do stuff to us too.
? Re-ignite the power of the UN while it's still a body collective capable of tackling global supra-sovereign issues together: Climate Change, pandemics, world currency not controlled by any one government, AI and the Singularity ahead (or already in the rear view mirror).
MSM
? The "effete snobs" and "nattering nabobs" of the "lefty" upperclasses, as the late Greek Spiro Agnew put it, mock the NY Post, confusing the conservative tabloid with the former check-out counter paper, the National Enquirer (newspaper of record for Trump's deplorables, now defunct, like Trump himself). NYT, NYPost, NatEnq -- the class divisions of America right there. Even Sy Hersh observed in his memoir that today MSMers and the political class all attended the same privileged schools; they don't threaten each other, and they speak to their own kind in class argot.
? For years, the MSM has been called a Mouthpiece for power -- doesn't matter much who is in office. Unless Trump is in office, no sign of real adversarial journalism will be seen. We'll never read much deep diving into the corrupt electoral system that allows disenfranchisement to continue without pause.
? We need a union of non-partisan, adversarial, fact-oriented alternate news sites not afraid of telling the people about shenanigans their government is up to in the name of money-making. This should be done even if it means developing a new Internet.
MINIMUM WAGE $20 PER HOUR
At least $20 per hour, about the rate Australians are paid. And constitutionally guaranteed to rise with COLAs. It is a sign of crisis when people have to take on second and third jobs due to the erosion of value of their prime wage. Come January, if he makes it, we'll have Joe Middle Class in office, who never did a single identifiable good thing for the middle class. This sh*t's gotta stop. We need to stop asking for a rise in the minimum but taking it to the Congress with massive sit-ins in the chambers, sitting right on their laps, if necessary, and picking their pockets on the way shown out.
LONG TERM AGRO WORKERS
? California used to belong to the forbears of those who now pick our lettuce, tomatoes and grapes. Yanquis stole their land (California) and pushed them down to "Mexico." We need to give these people immediate, retroactive US citizenship, with full voting rights, and constitutional protections, such as union-creation. Half the people coming up from Latino countries south are lettuce, tomato, and grape pickers from countries we fostered coups in or helped make so violent with drug rages that they seek a better life in the azure picking fields in el norte. We're so full of sh*t about Mexican doings that the embarrassing border nonsense may qualify as a form of Montezuma's revenge.
ANYBODY TALKS SOUTHERN WALL AGAIN WE PUT EM UP AGAINST ONE AND, AS GROUCH WOULD SAY, POP GOES THE WEASEL
Okay, just a snark.
UNIONS
? Bring 'em back. And let's have voter block unions. Have women live up to their Seneca Falls promise of true equality and the suffragette hope that women would vote as one solid block. Had that happened we'd have had a totally different (and maybe better) political landscape today. 100 years later in America the age-old war over who owns a woman's body continues. (Don't even ask about the legacy of slavery.) Speaking of ex-slaves, Blacks should unite as a voting bloc -- oh, wait! they already do; it's just that, until this year, their votes were tossed and nobody cared, not even Democrats who would have benefited from full counts (Hi Hills!) As we saw during the Viet Nam era, when an 18 year old could be drafted to go fight in a war even against their principles but still not be allowed to vote, American university-aged students are still being disenfranchised, their votes, too, according to Greg Palast, tossed by Repugs and Dems because they often reject the Lesser of Two Evils system and vote Green or Independent, and thus take votes away from Evil.
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