I would bring back hats, through force of law. Violators would be gunned down in the streets by a small, but elite band of hat enforcement officers. People would complain at first, but they’d complain while wearing hats.
Use both lanes to merge point. Federal law. First time breaking the law is a $1,000 fine. Second time is a $2,000 fine and the word “Fuckwit” tattood on the forehead. Third transgression is forced relocation to Mingo Junction, OH.
For only 4 years, and then it might be repealed? That means Climate Change policy would have a very high risk of being pointless.
So Reparations it is! Normally I’d want to take much, much more time for study and research, but I’ve only got 4 years – so a Reparations program for government policies and practices that discriminated against and harmed black Americans and Native Americans, which includes 1 year of extremely intensive study by a very large and well-funded commission, followed by 3 years of funds dispersal based on the damages recommended by the commission.
It would be completed in 4 years, so there’s no worry about repealing it. Damages would be capped at an amount that would eliminate the wealth gap between white, black, and Native Americans (which, ballpark IIRC, is ~30 to 50K per person, or maybe per household). The commission could also recommend some sort of community investment, but it would have to be investment that was made in 3 years so as to avoid future repeal (which would be inevitable for a longer program).
I also considered criminal justice reform, but that could be repealed in 4 years.
Universal Health Care.
I don’t think the next president would have much success taking that away after everyone has had it for 4 years.
I’d do electoral reform but I’m not sure if this will be reversable in 4 years if it is found to be unconstitutional. Getting rid of gerrymandering I’m pretty sure would stick because once you break the self-perpetuating system it will be more difficult to re-implement. The more temporary nature of possible Senate and Presidential electoral reform is another story since they’re more questionable constitutioanlly, but still, you can’t make permanent progress on climate change, criminal justice reform, or health care without political progress. In a way, it’s like wishing for more wishes in that it might enable a lot of other agenda items.
Electoral reform is another good choice – if this can be considered a single policy, then the following:
Statehood for DC and PR (and Guam/VI/Marianas if residents of those places support); Dakotas become 1 state; Gerrymandering outlawed (bipartisan commission or mathematical/geometric/geographic solution); size of the House increased such that 1 rep = population of smallest state. Possibly more.
The population of Guam is 167,296. The current US population is over 329 million. If we give Guam statehood and implement your changes to the House, there will be roughly 2,000 Representatives (depending on how many other states we add).
Much of this is state-level, not federal/presidential, or would require a Constitutional amendment, which is beyond the power of a president.
Public guillotining of people who talk during the movies.
You need someone to oppose the policy for it to not be implemented. That’s why I noted that a lot of the policies of electoral reform would be overturned once the four years are up but assumed that they would stay until then.
Aye! I’m voting for NWYE!
This sounds good to me.