# What Would Your Ideal Political Party Platform Be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 13, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ideal-political-party-platform-be/658213 "2013-05-13T05:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 68
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ideal-political-party-platform-be/658213/68 "2013-05-16T10:40:46Z")
My “platform.” Many of the ideas would require much work on details, but I’ll focus on broad brushstrokes. [ul][li] Prioritize issues. Gun control, for example, given the huge emotions on both sides of the debate, is a distraction which obstructs attention to more urgent and solvable issues.[/li][li] Reduce the power of money in politics. Overturn _Supreme Court vs. H.sapiens_, by Constitutional Amendment if necessary. Re-implement and strengthen public campaign financing, controls against media concentration, etc. Ban public officials from retiring to serve as lobbyists.[/li][li] The on-going degradation of the Earth’s habitat must be a very high priority. This includes, but is not limited to, CO2 increase in atmosphere and ocean. Carbon fuels should be taxed heavily. Alternate energy, incl. nuclear, should be subsidized.[/li][li] Strengthen financial and anti-trust regulations. That Washington still panders to Wall St. after recent debacles should shock Americans.[/li][li] Improve U.S. education, especially for the earliest years. I offer no details, but admit reducing union power may be part of a solution. Vouchers may be part of a solution _but not as proposed by right-wingers who seek to degrade **public** schools_. **Any education plan must focus first on improving _public_ schools.** [/li][li] A taxpayer-financed Universal Health Care system should be created, operating in parallel to private system.[/li][li] Abortion rights could be defined state-by-state. (I assume a woman could travel to another state to get an abortion and return to her home no-abortion state without facing prosecution.)[/li][li] (I’ve deliberately ignored some important issues, e.g. immigration and foreign military actions, on which I would seek a flexible middle way.)[/li][/ul] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ideal-political-party-platform-be/658213)._