Party Platform Ideas

[RobertEarl]

It is time we told the Party what we want

Legalized pot

Subsidized college education

Solar panels everywhere

Big Banks broken up

$15 an hour minimum wage

Clean elections

Less war and less war spending

Fix Global Warming

[Blue Meany]

1. I've been hoping we'd have a thread on this topic...

I think what is really critical is our foreign policy, because, in reality, that is what is shaping our domestic economy--and the possibilities of addressing most issues at home.

We need to recognize that we have generated an ongoing cycle of opression and violence with a neoliberal economic policy that is imposed on developing countries with economic, diplomatic, and military sanctions and interventions, a policy that supports corporate eploitation of resources and labor, while externalising the human and environmental costs of this exploitation. The way to end terrorism, and thus the war on terror, is to change the policies to which terrorist activities were are response.. These happen to be the same policies that are giving rise to so much political alienation in the US as well--policies the exploit the planet, centralize control, and channel all of the benefits to a small group with not regard to th eimpact on the majority of people.

I would say that we need to re-orient foreign policy to treat other nations and peoples as equals, to seek fair trade deals that support workers in all the affected countries, to adopt a defensive military posture, rather than an interventionist one, and work only through international organizations to help restore order when there is a failed state.

[MineralMan]

2. Platform Committee. Get on it and

you can put those ideas forward.

It all stars by joining your local Democratic Party organization and then working your way up the leadership ladder by committing yourself to hard work electing Democrats. Eventually, you become a delegate to the National Convention and can try to become part of the Platform Committee. Even if you're not on that committee, you can propose planks.

If you're not a national convention delegate, send your ideas to someone in your state's slate of delegates and ask that person to submit your requests. That might work, if that delegate likes your ideas.

However, I don't know of anyone on DU who is a national convention delegate. So, your list is not likely to be read by anyone who is.

Still, if it makes you feel any better, all of those proposals and many more were resolutions voted on at my state senate district convention. All passed, and all will be voted on again at the Minnesota state convention. We're on it, you see. We've been on those proposals and many others for quite some time. So, they will be presented, if they pass at the state convention, which is very, very likely. Your Democratic Party organization in action, I guess.

[CorkySt.Clair]

3. And....

college loan write-offs for every american who has graduated from or attended college in the last 20 years.

[hellofromreddit]

4. End fossil fuel subsidies and close the halliburton loophole.