I’ll add a national holiday for voting day.
I’d like some reason to prevail with gun laws. Weapons of war do not belong on our streets.
Remove the cap on Social Security and raise taxes on b/millionaires plus corporations.
Pass a law eliminating gerrymandering, pass a Constitutional amendment subject to ratification eliminating the Electoral College, which will be passed on the strength of the anti-gerrymandering legislation, and then stop worrying about anything because the Republicans will never have a majority or the Presidency again.
Most of the people who currently don’t vote also don’t get to stay home from work on holidays - or are you expecting that Election Day is going to be a bigger deal than Christmas? (Which 10% of Americans still go to work on.)
Make the voting period a month long instead so that everyone has a chance to go vote on their day off. Or just do all voting by mail like my state has done for 20 years now.
All voting district maps decided by non-partisan boards. Absolutely no gerrymandering.
Citizens United eliminated.
Dark money eliminated.
Electoral College eliminated.
Supreme Court expanded.
Universal mail in ballots.
Campaigns limited to two months from election day.
There are a thousand things I would do as empress for life, but to keep the armed insurrections to a minimum I would just make voting fair, and let democracy have a go.
I like your additions, but I like the idea of a National Holiday too. Make it a party day, extended hours so people who work an 8 hour shift can still vote in person, if they choose.
Automatic voter registration too.
Extra nomination that year!
Alternately, no one steps down that year. I’m fine with either one.
Fixed terms for Supreme Court justices probably wouldn’t pass muster even with a friendly Supreme Court - you can’t legislate limitations onto the office beyond what the Constitution provides for.
What you could do is define “good behavior” such to say that, for example, accepting gratuities or gifts is cause for removal.
If we’re doing medicare for all let’s make medicare better. Much better.
I would incorporate all of these into a Right to Vote Amendment.
In the past, I’ve said that the Democrats should push for such an amendment because its passage would be a major first step in solving a lot of other problems.
But now, I feel it’s even more urgent. Project 2025 is a direct pathway to abolishing democracy.
Other things I’d like to see:
A public healthcare system. Healthcare should be treated as a public service like education or firefighting or law enforcement.
I’d also like to see our tax system reformed. We should be treating capital gains as income and taxing them at the same rate. And if corporations are people, let them start paying taxes again.
Some kind of fix on the college tuition problem. Maybe a program of interest-free loans from the government? Students would still have to pay for college but they wouldn’t have to go into a lifetime debt to do it.
Eliminating all federal drug laws and anti-drug law enforcement. We don’t need to be spending three billion dollars a year on the DEA. And several more billions on other aspects of the federal anti-drug programs.
Seems like that’s going too far in the opposite direction, unless you’re suggesting I ought to be able to walk down to the corner store and pick up a bottle of heroin.
Shit-Can Daylight Savings Time. Pick one and stick to it.
Nah, the lines at mine are too long already.
I don’t like that one. No DST would mean that from late May to early July dawn would occur at roughly 3 AM around my neck of the woods. And year-round DST would mean that in December the sun wouldn’t come up until almost 9 AM.
If anything, I’d like summer time to be two hours ahead of celestial time - give us summer days that don’t get dark until after 10 PM, and let the sun stay down until after 5. Or divide our time zones by latitude instead of just longitude so that states farther north can have a day-night cycle more aligned with the hours that we’ve decided are when Important Stuff should be done. I’d be OK with midnight sunsets if it meant I didn’t have the sunrise shining through my window way before decent folk ought to be up and about.
Repair the Dept. of Commerce to where it would have been by now, reversing decades of hamstringing going back to Reagan
All business licenses based on verifiable qualities of being conducted for the public good. Private equity firms and hedge funds go the same route as did poisonous patent medicines and printing counterfeit copies of your competitions’ stock certificates 125 years ago.
Regulations that prevent predatory “subscription fees,” “proprietary software,” etc.; and force companies to provide dependable goods and services, by not allowing them to create profit centers off their engineered failures.
I’d go through the last 5, 6 seasons of Last Week Tonight and the portion in the main segment where John Oliver does his “So what can we do about … ?” wrap-up, and do all of those that involve actions by the Federal government.
Universal mail-in ballots. I believe we have the technology to make it safe.
Abolishment of the death penalty. It’s just an embarrassing, divisive blot on the nation’s psyche.
And eveything Smapti said.
I would severely limit mail-in ballots. I don’t believe we have the technology to make it safe.
I’ve discussed before my “Medicare for Most” plan, that would gradually shift the US from the ACA to Medicare for everyone.
Personally, I’d have no problem with that. People used to be able to buy heroin or cocaine just like we can now buy alcohol or nicotine. All of these drugs are bad for you but I don’t see any reason we should treat their abuse as legal issues.
But I wasn’t going that far. I was just saying we should get the federal government out of the drug law business. If states want to make heroin illegal and assume the cost of enforcing that, I’d let them.
I’d like to hear how this would work. Because on its face, it sounds like you’re advocating for all news media to be state-run, and that’s a very scary proposition.