What would make America better?

You're not wrong.

Washing my pussy.

Who or what body determines what constitutes disinformation?

What genetically modified food do you consider worthy of a ban, and do you consider it less healthy than processed food?

Have the FCC rules apply to cable news, radio and social media for false information.

Shut down immigration for 5 years - for everyone. Seriously. I'm tired of all the supposed tech workers from India, China and other countries coming over because 'we couldn't find any'. Fucking TRAIN Americans. We are not intellectually incapable of learning this stuff - it's just the cost of any education or experience has become crazy.

Provide two or three high school routes for kids - trade school, general business/office education, and university path. Too many of our public schools are being held hostage by kids who don't want to learn and make fun of and hold back those who do.

Tax overhaul - have an increasing tax brackets like we did 50 years ago - except with one exception: you have to make that amount of money for 3 years or more. So any windfalls, lottery winnings, etc. when it puts you into a tax bracket for 1 or potentially 2 years would be exempt. The point is to make the exceedingly wealthy pay more in taxes.

OP and R4 have made some valid suggestions. They should at least be discussed.

1. Eliminate the electoral college

This constitutional change will not happen unless small-population states are offered some kind of consideration. WON'T HAPPEN.

2. More choices of (viable) political parties

Go ahead. Try. WON'T HAPPEN.

3. Ban all cable news

Unconstitutional. You want censorship? WON'T HAPPEN.

4. Universal healthcare

Fine. How will that work?

5. Free college for poor kids with good grades

And what about lower-middle-class kids "with good grades"? And what makes you think that grades tell the story, given their subjective nature, apt to be distorted to qualify "poor kids."

Why not free university opportunities for all? ("College" makes you seem naive.)

6. Free speech should not include disinformation

And how will you prove and enforce this? Libel laws, laws against endangerment by false claims (yelling "fire" in a crowded place, calling in bomb threats).

7. Ban genetically modified shit that causes health issues

Minimum four weeks vacation, increasing as you get older

(1) Public Health System running along side Private hospitals would be great. (2) Two Senate seats per state...gotta go..2 senators can't represent California then 2 for Wyoming. Ridiculous. (3) Electoral College and Gerrymandering gone. (4) Minimum wage rise to at least $15 per hour to get rid of the 'working poor'. (5) Big Pharma need a kick in the arse. (6) Get rid of Cheques...very outdated and slow. Just ramblings from me. I'm sure there are many, many more.

More Shelley Hack!

You forgot one:

Ban public worship.

It’s officially a failed experiment. Best to look for alternative options while you can.

Emphasis on education is what has been missing the last 50 years or so.

Candy

Eliminate social media.

Reinstate the draft

R14 - or, ensure that social media accounts are authorized and proven names and profiles attached to a specific person. That will shut things up REAL quick.

People will be nice like they used to be. You couldn't run around town yelling at people in a mask like you do now.

They tried all of that - then it was shut down because of privacy concerns. There's still a middle ground - you can still use any user name but also be attached to an actual identify for follow-up.

[quote]4. Universal healthcare Fine. How will that work?

r6, look at us.

Demand Barbra Streisand stop singing.

Less religion, fewer guns, better education, dial down the military and consumerist fetishes, raise taxes, make healthcare universal. But since none of those will happen, just fall over and die without too much collateral damage.

I question whether having more parties would make it better.

Having more choice is often not beneficial and can be more confusing. In all likelihood, it would become a battle of which smaller parties takes more votes away from which larger party. It would end up giving much smaller parties with much smaller constituencies a much larger voice than they otherwise would.

Also, because "coalition" governments would be necessary, you'd end up over time with the same groups banding together in any case. However, you'd end up with much bigger compromises and negotiations to achieve that unity.

Gerrymanding has to go.

I am completely opposed to free college for everyone. As it is a college degree from most colleges and universities is now worth what a high school degree was worth in the job market 30 years ago. At the same time, the quality of that education has dramatically declined with lowered standards and expectations. The reality is that the vast majority of people do NOT have the intellectual capacity to benefit from a higher education. We can pretend that "there's different kinds of intelligence" but college requires the one measured by IQ.

Dump in front of a firing squad.

It was good until the stupid GMO thing, you get an ff, you stupid retarded trash pit. Go Op!!!

R12, fifty years of backsliding started right here.

We’ll never recover.

Split the country into 5 or 6 European sized countries.

We have to divorce healthcare from employment; it has been turned into an employment perk.

We have to remove domestic pharmaceutical protections and open prescription drug supply chains to international players. We are a captive market.

We have to eliminate carve-outs in wage rate rules. No employer should be able to use tip income, incarceration, or minor status as an excuse to pay less than federal wage rates.

Start a war with Uruguay. Just for fun.

Stop criminalizing everything. Just criminalize the necessary things and cut the bullshit.

“I’m going to outlaw breathing. Kamala thinks all Americans should breathe, but I think she’s a Marxist.”

Term Limits for every role - House, Senate, and especially Supreme Court.

Who determines "Disinformation?" In politics, both parties lie.

Fine all people who choose not to vote. The higher the level of government, the steeper the fine. The more times you choose not to vote, the steeper the fine. After three times, jail time. Regardless of if you are right or left, you don't get to bitch and not vote.

Zero tolerance for "quality of life crimes". For instance, people who do drugs on public transit should be banned from using it.

End exclusive single-family zoning and implement a land value tax.

Enact a carbon tax, more pigouvian taxes (like on sugar), and VAT taxes (adjusted to be progressive) instead of income taxes.

Stop subsidizing sprawl and highways.

Make geography a more integral part of education.

Reduce/eliminate the amount of middlemen in our most cost-burdened industries like healthcare, education, etc.

Stop outsourcing government functions to non-profits. This is something that started in the seventies and went crazy during the Gingrich years in Congress. This is a big reason why our government doesn't function properly.

Increase the amount of representatives in the house.

Eliminate the senate.

[quote] more pigouvian taxes (like on sugar)

This should say soda, not sugar

Fine all people who choose not to vote. The higher the level of government, the steeper the fine. The more times you choose not to vote, the steeper the fine. After three times, jail time. Regardless of if you are right or left, you don't get to bitch and not vote.

You shouldn’t have the right to vote and should be deported to some wackjob country because you clearly are one.

My last comment was for r31.

“Make America Great Again” by reverting to the progressive tax structure in the Eisenhower administration. When the extremely wealthy actually paid their share. Since the Republicans seem to want to go back to that era.

Great list OP, Here are a couple more: These created financial limits on banking corporations that the Clinton admin undid. These are acts that had been in place since the depression. Return to the Glass Stegal act. Instituted in 1933 it was designed to separate commercial from investment banking. Repealing this lead directly to the crash of 2018. Return the future commodities trading act 1936. This regulated swaps in the marketplace. Also known as derivatives, remember them. Also, in 2015, Obama undid the ban on the export of unprocessed crude oil. This act allowed oil traders to go global with the US oil market irrespective of the harm done to workers and oil users in the USA.

A few items come immediately to mind:

Immigration reform. It will be the hardest thing the US has done since WWII, because immigration is a football that's been kicked down the road for decades now, and so much of it is absolutely theater - Republicans pretend to be outraged by it so they can have something to blame on Democrats, but most of the big corporations that R's depend on for support need cheap labor to keep the wheels turning and the money coming in. Most of us are neither utopian "let's all live in peace and harmony" hippies, nor "let's shoot everyone that tries to cross the border" hard right wingers. We want sane immigration policies that are humane at a basic level (not separating children and families).

We should institute reform across the board with higher education. The US government should create multiple opportunities for public service - Habitat for Humanity, the military, Peace Corps, and so on - and time served gets you credits for a community college, college, university or trade school. This would be great on so many levels - diminishing student loan debt and default, giving life experience to kids who will have a clearer idea of what their strengths are and areas of interest are when they finally attend classes. This is not a new idea (many countries in Europe do this).

I don't agree with everything R31 suggested but we definitely need to reform how we use and develop land. Sprawl is unsustainable in the long run. We went through 150 years of exponential, explosive growth that ended in the late 70's when the post WWII burst of growth petered out. We have neither the people nor the money investment or any other kind of growth engines to spur growth on the levels some of us remember from our childhoods in the 60s and 70s. (And keeping those pesky immigrants out doesn't help, either.) A new bunch of houses/stores/shopping malls somewhere just means somewhere else is headed to ruin. Zoning in the last 50 years has basically existed to sustain the suburbs and keep poor people of color away from everyone else and from any and all opportunities.

I don't disagree with the idea about the FCC licensing or monitoring cable news as well as broadcast networks, but with online content and things like TikTok, that horse left the gate long ago.

I wonder if the founding fathers ever fathom how much population growth would explode due to the Industrial Revolution. We do need to get rid of the Senate actually.

Free Glade air freshener for everyone

Being back McDonalds pizza

Trans sex worker of color as president

Change pronunciation to “Amerikee” like Irish people pronounce it on old timey tv shows

Reboot The Sopranos but it’s set in space

Nutella awareness media blitz

Mandatory perm service for all white guys - two years of processed hair helps us become empathetic.

Mandatory gym service for men and women. You can be a butter face, but we want you to be fit and happy.

Forced monthly pedicures or nail inspections for all adults over the age of 45. Bunch of nasty people who could climb trees with their back claws….

R40 you aren’t funny.

[quote] “Make America Great Again” by reverting to the progressive tax structure in the Eisenhower administration. When the extremely wealthy actually paid their share.

People always say this but this isnt' true. There were way more loopholes back in the 50s and 60s than there are now. The rich only paid slightly higher taxes versus now.

[quote] 7. Ban genetically modified shit that causes health issue

GMOs have been studied for decades, they do not cause health issues.

[Quote] My last comment was for [R31].

Everyone who is fooled by Matt’s cosplay, raise your hand.

r44 I'm guessing you made that stupid ass statement. And bitch I'm not Matt, you know I already know that, so give it up. Fining and ultimately deporting those who choose not to vote. Where they do that at. Certainly not in our beautiful nation with choice and reason. It is someone's god given right not to participate in civics. It's foolish to me, I would never not vote as a black man, but to criminalize it? Make it make sense.

24 hr golden girls channel

Shut up Defacto at r45

r47 GET A LIFE BITCH. PLEASE.

^^^ ironyproof

YOU OBSESS WITH ME NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. AND YOUR STANKIN ASS KNOWS IM NOT DEFACTO. I THINK YOU LOWKEY LIKE HIM.

He’s even doing a form of black cosplay on his “nicer” Twitter

r51 I'm now cosplaying you big dummy. Stay obsessing. I aint backing down bitch. We can do this for the next 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 months. I am real and you are mad.

not* fuck

Anyways I aint got time for the cunts right now. I don't feel like obliterating people like I did on Sunday. God bless all and make sure you vote and generally be safe out there.

DIAGF you balloon snouted piece of old-person excrement

A dead dump

r5 buy you do blanche, ya do. So stop acting like you don't. I own you. I give you life.

r55*

You forgot to sign authenticated, Matt. Were you switching to another account?

[quote] Ban genetically modified shit that causes health issues

Not only is R43 correct, but people have been using “GMO” for centuries by selective planting/cross breeding. HFCS (which is completely “natural”) bothers me far more than genetically modified crops.

[quote] We have to remove domestic pharmaceutical protections and open prescription drug supply chains to international players. We are a captive market.

What? Do you know who makes Ozempic? Norvo Nordisk, based in DENMARK. One (of many) issue with drug pricing is there is actual federal law banning the government from setting pricing for most drugs (this changed a little recently with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act – but only for Medicare and only for select drugs).

It is absolutely the lack of a primary payer (nationally) that screws US citizens.

r59 you are defecto or Matt bitch. You must be, cause u bring them up every mafuckin day. You have to be and this is some sick game of yours.

[quote] Fining and ultimately deporting those who choose not to vote.

Uh, I never mentioned deporting anyone so I don't know wtf you are talking about. Btw, Australia fines people for not voting and they are a very stable democracy.

While it will never happen, I agree with:

1. Eliminate the Electoral College

I don't live in one of the swing states, so my vote, effectively, does not count. That's not democratic.

Let the South secede.