There are dozens and dozens of policy areas that I want to see the new congress reform: war, immigration, tariffs, health care, corruption, etc. But the bottom line on which I will judge them, and from which most of the specifics are derived, is simple. I want them to make the US government less cruel.
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@mattblaze Change who it is that pays for political campaigning, and you might get different results. If by cruel, you mean hostile to your interests and the interests of others who do not fund Super PACs, then you will need to figure out how to change how pays for their bills if you expect them to act differently.
@mattblaze If only this were written down somewhere and we had a system to enforce it...
Ah well....
"establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, "
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
It will depend on how many of them are progressives and how many of them are more moderate centrists.
If we elected mostly moderate centrists, expect to be told that unity is more important than change and accountability. Expect them to hold us off until we mostly get used to the new, horrible normal. And when we finally have had enough, expect them to lecture us on the value of protesting as our cries are ignored and our messages are sent to the spam folder. In short, overall expect more of the same.
Only when we elect progressives — real ones, true democratic socialists — can we truly expect change.
Nothing is possible without rooting out corruption. As long as our political class is essentially indentured to our oligarchs, no positive movement can exist in legislature, and no trust can be built between the people and their govt.
Corruption is the only real issue right now. The corrupt must be punished so brutally and publicly that politicians have nightmares about it every night for generations.
I care about taxes, the economy, foreign policy, and so on, just like everyone. But I'm not a single issue voter on many of them. I can compromise on most of them.
But not with cruelty, which has been the centerpiece of the administration's policy doctrine.
@mattblaze Yeah, I would like to say let's go for "more compassionate" but we can't get there without first getting "less cruel."
@mattblaze @SteveBellovin remember the days when the cruelty was obfuscated and implicit instead of proud and bullying