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A Brief and Cheery History of an American Future

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2023

The Affordable Green Housing Act leads to a massive nationwide construction program to ensure every working person pays no more than of income for rent in state-of-the-green-art, community-centered housing complexes.

The Let's Get High Act legalizes and taxes drugs. Substance abusers are treated as patients rather than as criminals.

2024

The Justice At Last Act provides $1 trillion for reparations for African-Americans to be paid out as an annuity over five years. Its nontaxable cash to be used for any purpose recipients see fit, providing another stimulus jolt to the economy.

Jill Stein and Kshama Sawant are elected President and Vice President in a landslide over Libertarian candidates Ron Paul III and David Koch, Jr.

Thanks to the Climate Stabilization Act of 2019, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases begin to decline, ocean acidification shows signs of reversal, and polar and glacial ice stabilizes. The Act led to similar action in China, EU, Japan and other major carbon emitters.

2025

A constitutional amendment changes the US's winner-take-all electoral system to multiparty proportional representation system with various preferential voting options available at the state level. It also lowers the voting age to 16. Innovative left parties spring up, led by teenagers.

2026

Jill Stein helps engineer an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the establishment of a single secular democratic demilitarized state encompassing both peoples known as Jerusalem.

The Independent Media Act passes Congress unanimously. Not-for-profit media prosper. Community studios train all comers to be news, music, and commentary content producers. Media monopolies melt. Fox News has fewer viewers than PBS. The corporate media fades away over the next decade.

2027

The Never Again Act ends mass incarceration and does away with mandatory minimum sentences, transforms the criminal court system into problem-solving courts, vastly reduces the prison population, re-enfranchises ex-offenders, and converts prisons to productive purposes.

With Stein's latest appointment, the Supreme Court now has a radical majority that works feverishly to undo two hundred and fifty years of injustice.

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