Also:
👉DEI spelled out in excruciating detail as the foundation
👉Housing, healthcare, & meaningful work as fundamental rights
👉Critical thinking test for all public servants
👉Technological literacy requirement for politicians
👉Money out of politics
Congressional districts shall represent x number of people and shall be designed to have the smallest perimeter while respecting geographic and practical features.
It sounds arcane but that's how you get Toronto 2015 vs. North Carolina 2014. It would solve so many problems.
Also maybe women actually get an equal rights clause this time, since you know, we create life and are the reason for all human existence and also we’re people too.
I bet we could get some pretty great concessions from the baseline maga types in a constitutional convention.
We can agree with their demands to outlaw the imaginary things they think are real, and we can probably get them to agree to the real things that they run and hide from. 🤝
So much of US history around slavery was shaped to appease slave owners. That they have always comprised such a significant and powerful part of our government and economy should not be glossed over in education yet here we are.
Closely related that the one defining citizenship and personhood doesn't let mitt Romney and whatever stupid ass supreme court fanfiction writers say a person is anything other than a single person.
Can I also suggest that we finally give equal voting representation to everyone regardless of race? Because of the electoral college and a Senate that gives disproportionate power to small, predominantly white states, to this day white voters still have more electoral power than black voters do.
“We, the people, in pursuit of justice, liberty, and a future free from oppression, establish this Constitution to safeguard equality, protect rights, and ensure governance serves all. No power shall infringe upon the dignity, autonomy, or freedom of any person.”
If we are purging Const 2 of the taint of slavery, let’s finish the job and abolish the Senate entirely.
One chamber with proportional representation. The number of seats determined so that the smallest states’ districts don’t result in malaportionment as they do now.
The electoral college is taxation without representation. Same with the Senate. Abolish both. And remove the cap from the House. Federally fund elections-no outside money whatsoever.
I could go on forever.
#PowerToThePeople
Assumes that the progression side gets to have that moment… Given how weakly the Dems are dealing with this, it’s more likely the other side that does that… tragically,
“A republic, if you can take it back again”
(Next time be more illiberal in the defence of progressive liberalism)… same in UK :(
I really do think we need to just open with 1 paragraph on our collective immutable irrevocable human birthrights and close with a simple "see previous paragraph for clarification"
It's actually super hard to get surprised into overt genocidal fascism when your society agrees that kidnapping people to lock them in cages and force them to work and kill them is actually unequivocally wrong
Culturally, I believe I am on borrowed time from children. Including my own. The problem is western values treat them as property. They are not. They are also not small adults.
Western Values(tm) are notoriously bad at treating things with nuance, which is hilarious for something that claims to be based on rationalism and critical thinking from Greek philosophers.
frankly, I am still hoping we don't try to revive a nation from sea to shining sea. But we so aren't prepared for any positive alternatives to happen so... sigh
I'd restart that one from scratch.. hard to be specific but not too specific but allow larger populated areas to enact controls and prosecute crimes committed while armed as harshly as possible.
We need an amendment saying you can’t break sentences in the Const into clauses. This was merely super obvious common sense for the current one and that’s how they upended over 200 years of 2A precedent to invent the current utterly insane interpretations.
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👉DEI spelled out in excruciating detail as the foundation
👉Housing, healthcare, & meaningful work as fundamental rights
👉Critical thinking test for all public servants
👉Technological literacy requirement for politicians
👉Money out of politics
Corporations are not people.
It sounds arcane but that's how you get Toronto 2015 vs. North Carolina 2014. It would solve so many problems.
We can agree with their demands to outlaw the imaginary things they think are real, and we can probably get them to agree to the real things that they run and hide from. 🤝
Go for it.
“We, the people, in pursuit of justice, liberty, and a future free from oppression, establish this Constitution to safeguard equality, protect rights, and ensure governance serves all. No power shall infringe upon the dignity, autonomy, or freedom of any person.”
One chamber with proportional representation. The number of seats determined so that the smallest states’ districts don’t result in malaportionment as they do now.
Equal representation for all.
I could go on forever.
#PowerToThePeople
“A republic, if you can take it back again”
(Next time be more illiberal in the defence of progressive liberalism)… same in UK :(
“So we’re just gonna sat a blanket ‘no slavery at all’? That seems irresponsible.”
“Yeah we need a backdoor in there… I mean what if we find out no slavery is worse?”
“What about as punishment for a crime?”
“Which ones specifically?”
“Eh… leave that vague”
Though, I'd say it's always a good thing to refine and expand vocabulary on topics we already agree with.