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Question: Which issues should Democrats FOCUS on the most?
#1
Universal Single-Payer Healthcare (also allow the government to negotiate lower drug prices and allow drug importations from other countries like Canada)
 
#2
Tuition-free College for state colleges
 
#3
$15/hour Minimum Wage
 
#4
Paid Leave (family, sick, vacation)
 
#5
Affordable Childcare
 
#6
Universal PreK
 
#7
Infrastructure
 
#8
tax reform that includes the Buffet rule for millionaires, a carbon tax, bank risk tax, elimination of tax deductions/credits that favor the rich and wealthy corporations
 
#9
elimination of the payroll FICA tax cap, and expanded Social Security... and transitioning Social Security into a Universal Basic Income for people of all ages that begins to replace many government bureaucracies
 
#10
the Paycheck Fairness Act for gender equality and closing the pay gap
 
#11
the Equality Act, adding LGBT to antidiscrimination protection in employment/housing/medicine/adoption/education/public-accommodations/etc. at the national level
 
#12
comprehensive Immigration reform with pathway to citizenship for everyone, more Muslim refugees
 
#13
Marijuana Legalization nationwide
 
#14
Universal Gun Background & Mental Health Checks
 
#15
Criminal Justice Reform (end for-profit prisons, low-level offenders not having mandatory minimums, nonviolent offenders offered treatment not jail, encourage police body cameras, requiring transparent public databases to report all violent police inciden
 
#16
Universal voter registration/updating, repairing the Voting Rights Act, making Election Day a federal holiday, and encouraging early voting in all states
 
#17
new Public Housing projects
 
#18
Bank Breakups
 
#19
Cut Military Spending
 
#20
Environmental & Animal Protections
 
#21
Outlawing coal, fracking, oil drilling
 
#22
amendments on campaign finance and the electoral college
 
#23
being Pro-Choice
 
#24
our International Alliances abroad, and value of Human Rights
 
#25
OTHER (please specify)
 
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The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow
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« on: August 29, 2017, 03:43:14 PM »
« edited: August 29, 2017, 03:51:28 PM by slightlyburnttoast »

What I personally care about the most:
  • criminal justice reform
  • reform of campaign finance and the electoral process
  • moving towards single-payer healthcare
  • tax reform

What the Democrats would be the most successful focusing on when it comes to winning elections:
  • raising the minimum wage (for such a widely-discussed and seemingly controversial topic last year, it's been surprisingly popular in several recent state referendums, and focusing on it conveys a care for working-class people)
  • criminal justice reform (hasn't been touched on all that much in recent campaigns, but many proposals under this umbrella could easily be viewed as common sense proposals among much of the electorate, ex. abolishing private prisons)
  • healthcare, but instead of focusing on getting single-payer, focus on the healthcare failures of the Trump administration and the Republican Congress (single-payer still isn't approved of a majority of Americans, and a leap that big so suddenly would be off-putting: Democrats should certainly move in this direction and should start making it a bigger part of their platform, but gradually, as single-payer gets more publicity as a concept)

Gun control measures and infrastructure are areas where Democratic policies are mostly popular among the public but neither seem to be political winners.
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