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2 min readNov 19, 2020

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I believe in universal suffrage too. It’s non negotiable. You won’t ever have a stable democracy without it.

Voting should not be unduly burdensome in any way either.

I’d like to see some sort of review of law trigger an “un-do” or a block by public referendum or something. I don’t have a clear idea here either but ultimately I’d like to see

  • A more reasoned vote
  • A way for the public to force needed legislation to review and vote by sequestering congress until they do their job
  • A way to follow up and change or remove laws that are unintentionally harmful after a respectable period of time to determine effects and to remove outdated laws, scrub them in fact, so they can’t be used in obscurity on another matter.
  • A shift in how we think about elections and candidates toward character vs party
  • The public decides the agenda not by choosing between two candidates but by choosing the platform which the candidate must follow.
  • A society wide full embracure of civic duty around the vote from early childhood. People need to know and believe their vote matters. These same battleground states time and time again should not decide the fate of us all. End the electoral college.
  • Religion out of politics. There’s a reason why the founders placed that “wall”. It was a mistake to tear it down.
  • An easily accessible way to view information in a way that can be studied, not through quasi hypnotically listening to talking mouthpieces, about laws and upcoming votes that is politically neutral so people have a sound idea what they’re voting for in the first place.

And so forth and so on. I guess we all have our ideas of what’s wrong and how to fix it. Like Lee’s and most people, my ideas are vague and without a plan to get there. I’m sure someone else could poke holes through them pretty quickly.

We all like to armchair quarterback, right?

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