What do you think of the Democratic Socialists of America platform proposal?

[Anonymous]

Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.

Protect, expand, and enforce the rights of all workers to form, join, and strike with their unions, regardless of industry

Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries

End ICE detention and deportations

End all military and economic aid to Israel. Prosecute U. S. and Israeli leaders responsible for the genocide in Gaza.

Defund the Department of War.

Demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system

strictly regulate investment properties, establish universal rent control

Guarantee universal healthcare at no cost to individuals

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In summary, they believe the tax base is endless, and the constitution should be abolished.

[OneViewpoint]

Overall, I like most of it. My disagreements...

• Why is getting dark money from corporations and billionaires out of political campaigns not #1 on this platform?
• Public ownership of corporations. That is a trap. Keep government out of private enterprise and keep corporate money out of government. Why isn't that the first plank in the platform?
• The Supreme Court. Turn it over to a dysfunctional group of sellout idiots in the House and Senate? Stupid. Settle for a single 10 year term and a hard age limit of 75. No more senile partisans with a lifetime appointment fucking up the country for generations.
• Defund the Dept Of War. Dumb idea. I'd keep DOD around abut cut their budget back to say $250 billion. Take the $750 billion in saving and redirect it towards infrastructure, education, and healthcare that voters will benefit from directly.
• There is no universal healthcare for free. It would be paid for by taxes. But yes, universal access to healthcare should no be based on your bank account.
• I don't think government deciding rents is smart or efficient. Leave it at freezing institutional investors out of equity in residential real estate. Basically antitrust intervention by government.

On the flip side.

• I think cutting off military and economic aid to Israel is THE best lever we have but have never used. Do it. But I'd also include removing our political support for Israel. And do it very publicly. Until they stop voting for fascists.
• Term limits and age limits in the House and Senate. Increase the turnover in those 2 chambers and get some new blood in there. Get rid of the ancient scum already owned by corporate America and the 1%. No more Nancy Pelosi's, Susan Collins, Chuck Schumer's, Lindsey Graham's, Ted Cruz's, Mitch McConnell's, etc.
• Eliminate the favorable tax treatment for unearned income namely Capital Gains and Carried Interest. That opens up 90% of the earnings of the 1% to fair and equal taxation.
• Wealth tax on billionaires.

[fishbone77]

lol.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Terrific list here. Republicans just hate it because it strips them of any power they might have and definitely strips them of financial gain they get from corrupt businesses and countries.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a dreamworld compared to what we currently have going on with a dictator loser.

[Asker]

So you agree the constitution needs to be abolished

[strateguy632]

that destroys 'check and balance' awful idea.

[Pterodon]

I’d love to execute all socialists publicly by firing squad

[msmissydc]

Sounds great. So when do you start?

[Asker]

So you’re agreeing the constitution should be abolished?

[fishbone77]

are you trolling or stupid?

[msmissydc]

What point talks about abolishing the constitution?

[Asker]

The United States Constitution intentionally fragments governmental power through the separation of powers and a system of checks and balances. Congress holds the authority to legislate, the President executes the laws, and the Supreme Court interprets them with the power of judicial review to invalidate unconstitutional measures. The Founders engineered this structure deliberately, fearing tyranny from any one branch, particularly a legislature driven by transient passions or unchecked majorities.
The Democratic Socialists of America advance a vision that fundamentally inverts this design. They propose subordinating both the judiciary and the executive to Congress, replacing independent institutions with bodies chosen by and accountable solely to the legislative branch. This is not reform. It constitutes structural castration of the constitutional order. It destroys judicial independence, reducing the Supreme Court to a mere extension of congressional will rather than a guardian of constitutional limits. The executive branch is likewise diminished to an administrative subordinate. One branch, Congress, thereby achieves unchallenged supremacy, eliminating the deliberate tensions that have long protected individual liberty.
Their additional call for a new democratic constitution featuring proportional representation in a single federal legislature goes further still. This does not amend the original framework. It replaces it outright. The Constitution’s safeguards against mob rule and factional overreach are discarded, rendering the founding document a historical artifact.

[Asker]

Abolishing the Electoral College compounds the danger. It eliminates the federalist compromise that balances the interests of small and large states as well as urban and rural populations, substituting a pure national popular vote. Together with the subordination of the other branches, this shift accelerates centralized congressional dominance, reducing veto points and enabling the swift imposition of radical changes without the moderating consent built into the original system.
To state it directly: this agenda does not democratize American government. It concentrates power in ways the Constitution explicitly guards against, clearing the path for whatever new society its advocates envision. History offers sobering lessons about such consolidations of authority. They rarely culminate in the egalitarian paradise promised. What appears thrillingly bold in theory proves dangerously foolish for anyone who prizes stable liberty over revolutionary fantasy.

[OneViewpoint]

@fishbone77 ,

No, but I'm certain you're a moron or a paid troll for the 1%

[DonaldDarko]

Just communist scum like always.

[exitseven]

These people are sick/

[canamlusciouslad73]

Ninety to 95% of it is GREAT !!!

[fishbone77]

they're a bunch of retards.

[strateguy632]

or to use rude liberal words, that admins allowed here: these are 'stupid sons of b*tches".

[fishbone77]

@strateguy632 I think every lefty replying to this is trying to out stupid each other.

[In_Trance]

Dumb shit