What should be the next big Progressive/Liberal cause?

[Frodo]

Economic justice and (literally) building a better America for future generations.  

 

  

[greenforest32]

That said, there's one main issue, reforming the US government and campaigns/elections.  As long as we have the current lobbyist and corporate money dominated system, it's incredibly difficult to move anything forward on a national level.  We probably need Constitutional tweaks to House and Senate apportionment, public financing of campaigns and a new voting rights act.

I agree strongly with this. It's hard to see anything major getting done when energy gets diluted through restrictive voting laws to undemocratic representation/excessive veto points and then to a thoroughly corrupt legislature.

There also definitely should be a focus on combating rent-seeking; it's just sick to read some of the proposals floating out in the open.

[Hatman 🍁]

Climate change is only going to become more and more important, guys.

[SteveRogers]

Forgetting the pass will be the most important part of a platform for the Godless Progressive Liberal to exist, especially as a Democrat, being relevant to a humanity that insists on the terms of constitutional order.

Child labor laws have diminished the family/community farm and business environment. For there to be any value of something, labor, being exploited will always be required.
 
Unions gave us Detroit and like with New York bringing the end to its existence.

There is nothing affordable for the 100% who work without a safety net.

Minimum wage continues the drift to 1/3 of one’s life too mediocrity, no sense of purpose, resulting in the height of suicide and violence on to others. Yes, Progressive Liberalism deployments from Democrats are the reasons for this increased degenerating occurrence.

Drug and homosexual use is a distraction from an order that a majority of people increasingly see disappearing; relationships, reward.

The Democrat Party Platform; for a minority, know, what it isn’t.
    
The Obama/O'Reilly superboul talk is the standard, ignorance.
 

Ok guys, who let t_host out of his thread?

[nuclearneo577]

First priority, end the corporate stranglehold on the U.S.A. Limit campaign donations per person, stop wasting taxpayer dollars giving them a safety net and use them to help the general population. This extends to the MiC, the military budget needs to be cut in half at the very least.

Second priority, pull the political spectrum to the left. Don't get me started on this,

[Mordecai]

+ Child labor laws (banning people under 16 from working altogether)
+ Nationalization of industry (because let's be honest, regulation doesn't work, neither do antitrust laws)
+ Food and consumer safety laws (Give the FDA and Consumer Product Safety Commission/FTC real teeth, end the practice of having only 'voluntary' recalls)
+ 4 Day Workweek (32 hour workweek; we work too much, let's give everyone Friday off)
+ Organize labor (Repeal Taft-Hartley, dramatically expand labor legislation so that it is on the side of the worker, rather than the boss)
+ Lower the retirement age (People work too much, lower it to 55)
+ Eradicate unemployment (Guarantee everyone a job)
+ Paid Leave
+ Living Wages ($22 an hour minimum)
+ Universal Basic Income (give everyone $500 a week)
+ Universal Healthcare (not this 'Obamacare' s**t)
+ Universal Education (let everyone go to college who wants to, provide vocational training for everyone else and heavily, heavily encourage the latter; fewer people should go to college but those who do shouldn't pay a dime for it)
+ National Day Care program to ensure that working mothers have an opportunity to continue to work after having a child
+ Full rights and protections for LGBT individuals, including fully paid for sex changes for trans* Americans and simple legal changes
+ Put people on Mars and establish permanent bases on the Moon
+ Expand public transit, phase out oil-based cars in favor of electric-based ones, institute single-payer auto insurance
+ Legalize all drugs, smash the police/surveillance state, and restore civil liberties
+ End Imperial foreign policy. Bring all the troops home, dump Israel.

[morgieb]

Hopefully something good for once and get rid of the death penalty.

Lol don't be silly. My money's on euthanasia.

TBF, there is/was a pretty large movement at the state level to abolish the death penalty among us.

[Mordecai]

Hopefully something good for once and get rid of the death penalty.

Lol don't be silly. My money's on euthanasia.

TBF, there is/was a pretty large movement at the state level to abolish the death penalty among us.

Yeah but we also got rid of guns. And it was the conservative party that did it too.

[morgieb]

Hopefully something good for once and get rid of the death penalty.

Lol don't be silly. My money's on euthanasia.

TBF, there is/was a pretty large movement at the state level to abolish the death penalty among us.

Yeah but we also got rid of guns. And it was the conservative party that did it too.

LOL, imagine if Howard tried that if he was American. He'd stand no chance of winning re-nomination.

[NerdyBohemian]

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Agree with this. I'm a teacher and it pains me that we push college on everyone. The truth is, college isn't for everyone. We shouldn't judge someone for not going to college. Also with more people graduating from college, the value of the degree becomes inflated. It used to be having a college degree made you stick out on a resume. Now it's almost a requirement. I also agree with heavily encouraging vocational training. With the decline of manufacturing, people who are not necessarily geared towards academics need strong careers that provide them with a decent living.

College isn't for everyone, but should be available to all who want it.

Some other causes I think we progressives should focus on:

-Universal Healthcare
-Repeal of "right to work" laws
-30ish hour work week and living wages

[t_host1]

 It appears “Dead Heading” is the new next big progressive/liberal cause. According to the Obama Administration and its affiliates the press, it is one of those much needed Obamacare good news stories. The people spend money on indoctrination (school) and his (Obama) new reeducation programs then self-impose poverty ascends. I have to hand it to the emperor, his Muslim blood is as thick as his speak, that is, if you understand the terms of dervish. I suppose it isn’t really all that new - dead heading, however, the Obama version of foreign force in America, to be nice, is an awkward position that does fit the updated liberal progressing to democracy.
   
“Dead Heading” in the trucking business is the cost to get to point B from point A with no freight to which to collect from - seems to fit major parts of the Obama Transformation; stimulus, clunkers, gun running, ACA and Christy hugging. Well, maybe some things have had a benefit.