Now there's a presidential platform I'd sign up for!

Is there a candidate out there now running on this platform?

... Way I see it, in a better world, a candidate running on a platform like this would have a place within the mainstream of politics, and an opportunity of scoring, say, a third of at least the Democratic primary vote.

"[He] ran on a platform that included:

• creating a Works Progress Administration-style program to rebuild America's infrastructure and provide jobs to all Americans,
  
• reprioritizing the War on Drugs to focus less on mandatory minimum sentences for drug users (which he views as racially biased) and more on harsher punishments for money-laundering bankers and others who are part of the "supply" end of "supply and demand"
  
• reversing Reaganomics-inspired tax cuts for the richest ten percent of Americans and using the money to finance social welfare programs
  
• supporting family farmers by reviving many of Roosevelt's New Deal-era farm programs
  
• creating a single-payer system of universal health care
  
• ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment
  
• increasing federal funding for lower-level public education and providing free community college to all
  
• applying stricter enforcement of the Voting Rights Act and
  
• supporting the formation of a Palestinian state.

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... Way I see it, in a better world, a candidate running on a platform like this would have a place within the mainstream of politics, and an opportunity of scoring, say, a third of at least the Democratic primary vote.

In a better world, I wouldnt catch myself cringing at some of these planks even though I actually agree with them, just because I've been so much conditioned to think of them as sure vote-losers and bait for the opposition, that a kind of self-censorship kicks in abruptly.

In short, in a world that hadnt shifted drastically to the right over the past, say, twenty years.

mysteryman wrote:

Is there a candidate out there now running on this platform?

Nope... alas, nothing like it.

Of course you can get the unworthy to vote themselves a big raise by financing "social welfare programs". It's the doom of the U.S., that some have realized they can vote in laws and lawmakers that take money from those that work and simply give it to those that won't.

That's why I collect guns.

Increase taxes on the few to spend more on the unwilling?

Why would this be needed if your platform gets jobs for everyone?