What change(s) would you make to our political process, were you granted the power?

[TIDE-HSV]

Other nations seem to be able to manage said standardizations but I reckon it is all because of comm’nism.

You just betrayed your ignorance of other countries. I've had kids living in Europe. It's worse...

 

[B1GTide]

The states will not be stripped of their power, so it is a non-starter. The largest states with the most to lose would be gone, and what is left you would not want to be a part of.

 

[81usaf92]

Other nations seem to be able to manage said standardizations but I reckon it is all because of comm’nism.

nevermind

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Well, rgw didn't take a warning well and has dared me, in a scatological way, to suspend him, so no choice...

 

[92tide]

It was me as much as him.

i was painting with a broad brush.

 

[NationalTitles18]

Well, rgw didn't take a warning well and has dared me, in a scatological way, to suspend him, so no choice...

It is what it is.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

It is what it is.

Ask and ye shall receive. The rule around here for decades...

 

[Crimson1967]

The sheer geographical size of the country demands a good deal of local rule.

 

[B1GTide]

The sheer geographical size of the country demands a good deal of local rule.

Yep - the US is bigger than all of Europe by a significant margin.

 

[B1GTide]

Up to 209 EC votes secured - getting closer:

Virginia House passes bill to give electoral votes to popular vote winner

 

[B1GTide]

Not sure if you guys have discussed UBI here before, but here is a pretty good article discussing its possibilities. The problem is the funding, but the concept is actually well founded. This article puts it into context, looking 2-3 decades into the future when robotics have replaced millions of jobs. The population of the US is not going to drop. The number of people living below the poverty line is going to continue to increase.

The near future offers some possibilities, and they include a much higher minimum wage, a UBI, or serious risk of civil uprising. I wonder if a UBI wouldn't be a better option than a much higher minimum wage?

Universal Basic Income

Imagine, for a moment, that the robots have won.

The year is 2049—the same year researchers once pegged as the one in which A.I. would become smart enough to pen a bestselling book more adeptly than a human author could. Technological advancements have upended the transportation, manufacturing and retail sectors, rendering nearly half of the U.S. jobs that existed in the year 2020 obsolete.

In this automated world, there are fewer jobs available. To be clear, experts aren’t totally convinced that the coming robot revolution will render all jobs outmoded at any point in the future, near or far. But imagining a post-work society is a useful gateway into thinking about how to preserve dignity and stay afloat in the capitalist soup that unfettered neoliberalism has made in the 21st century, and how to address yawning inequality and wage stagnation as an increasingly automated future takes root.

 

[BamaFlum]

Two things: term limits for all public offices and no elected official can make more than the average salary of his or her constituents.

 

[Padreruf]

A benevolent dictatorship...oh wait, we're trying that now, aren't we???