How About we Demand This for Our Democratic Platform- Make the 'leaders' listen to US

[J_J_]

FIX THE ECONOMY

1. Cancel NAFTA, WTO and future 'free' trade agreements which are the main cause of the lack of jobs and declining economy.

Instead of working and paying taxes, we have people forced to ask for help from the government because their jobs were sent overseas where communist China has now overtaken the US as the top economy in the world.

We are propping up a communist country because corporations wanted more money. This has to change and surely the Republicans will see this as well. They HATE communists, they won't shut up about Russia/Putin.


RETURN TO CONSTITUTION

2. Repeal the Patriot Act, cancel the massive NSA spy centers all over the country.

Republicans HATE goverment intrusion (which they think Obama started) so let's eliminate all the hugely expensive spying programs.

Who is going to argue with that?

Obviously with all that money wasted, some ragtag group of beheaders are still going to get us, so the NSA has failed miserably. They are fired!





What do you think should be included in the Democratic Platform that Democrats actually want?

[J_J_]

1. End the War on Drugs Nationally

States are legalizing, millennials in full support, watch them come out to vote to support candidates to end this forever.

Largest population of prisoners in the world, $100,000 per year to lock someone up in prison for non violent offenses.

Then the family needs to be supported by welfare because the breadwinner is in prison.

How about we let pot smokers out of prison and instead pay 2 people $50,000 per year to install solar panels instead?

[woo me with science]

2. Get behind voices like Bernie Sanders who can amplify these messages.

Put the Third Way voices on ignore.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025767160

[J_J_]

4. We need to lead, and make them follow

Bernie Sanders first needs to be schooled on election fraud which he doesn't think exists.

After the 2004 stolen election when Americans were demanding Congress look into what happened in Ohio...

Bernie Sanders took to the floor to tell everyone to shut up and get over it.

He and Conyers were all part of the dog and pony show.

We have no leaders.

We need to lead and make them follow.

[J_J_]

3. Ending the H-1B and L-1 Visa Programs

Millennials cannot get the tech jobs they went to college for because corporations would rather pay people $1 per day to set up their systems.

So instead they are on unemployment or working retail to pay off their student loans.

Why are we allowing this?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

23. Your post

1) undercuts the rationale for Obama moving on "amnesty" for undocumented immigrants and

2) it bolsters the GOP talking point it hurts low-skill / unskilled American labor

[brooklynite]

5. Umm, who's US?

I see no sign that these are the specific issues that Democratic voters are yearning for.

[J_J_]

6. What ARE Democratic voters yearning for do you think?

That was the whole point of the thread.

[NCTraveler]

13. The op requested your input on that exact matter. nt.

[brentspeak]

18. Sipping lattes with NYC neolibs probably

doesn't expose one to the average American Democratic voter.

[lumberjack_jeff]

20. The point of politics is to create a bigger "us" than "them"

among the working class, amnesty is a losing issue.

So the question is a choice between appealing to the votes of the upper middle class for whom immigration is solely an issue of cheap lettuce at Whole Foods and raising social consciousness or the working class for whom it is an issue of depressed wages.

I think one of the biggest fatal mistakes we've made is mixed messages in our appeals to the working class. "We want a higher minimum wage so that "undocumented" immigrants can send a living wage back home"

[yurbud]

7. How about a "people's filibuster": If 60% of people want or oppose something, politicians have to

act on it.

[J_J_]

10. ooooooh I Like it!!!!

That would be so awesome.

Do you think the majority of the American people would get behind this?

Like DUH!!!!

Elizabeth Warren to introduce? Anyone? Anyone?

[yurbud]

8. A question to ask every candidate: what have you done that you constituents wanted even though

it pissed off a rich donor?

[NCTraveler]

12. I like both of yours. nt.

[J_J_]

14. yes!

n/t

[NCTraveler]

9. Here is a rule I would like to implement.

If you were a vigorous supporter of McCain/Palin, you cannot run on a democratic ticket. Party didn't listen to me on this one.

[J_J_]

15. What. the.

That should go without saying...

[jwirr]

11. Protection of the safety net and educational opportunities for all. Protect the environment. Support

alternative energy. Demilitarize the police. No more trade agreements.

Actually - someone get a copy of the platform for 2014 and lets rewrite it.

[J_J_]

17. good ideas

this one in particular...

someone get a copy of the platform for 2014 and lets rewrite it

Someone out there is more qualified than me, H2O man? Octofish?

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. Accurate but incomplete.

No one can honestly look at the exit polling data and conclude anything other than our attempts at wedge politics in regard to sex have been a spectacular failure.

[Seeking Serenity]

21. I agree with this.

This "War on Women" meme needs to be put out to pasture, permanently.

[J_J_]

19. my millennials just suggested how to get them to the polls

Free video games for voting.

Robust debates by candidates on which gaming console they prefer

Harry Potter or Dr Who?

Star Wars or Star Trek

New Trilogy or old Trilogy

[Zorra]

22. The only way we can make leaders listen to us is a massive general strike

and boycott.

We simply don't have enough money to get their attention otherwise.

[CrispyQ]

24. Publicly funded campaigns. Get money out of politics. That would fix a whole lotta problems!

Shorten the election cycle - campaigning can start 8 weeks before the election. No more starting a campaign for an election 2 years away right after the last election. I'm sick to death of the constant campaigning.

Address gerrymandering.

[MineralMan]

25. Do you know who creates the Democratic Party Platform?

It's created and adopted for the national convention in Presidential election years. It's created by committees made up of active party leadership members. It's fed by 50 state conventions which pass resolutions that call for items to be included in the platform. The Platform committee is made up of active Democratic Party leaders who are also delegates to the national convention.

Nothing is going to go into the platform that was not adopted as a resolution by the 50 state conventions. And those state conventions adopt resolutions by a vote of the delegates to their state convention. Only those delegates an adopt a platform resolution. On the state level, resolutions are introduced by district conventions and committees. Those proposed resolutions are also adopted by votes of active participants in the party organization.

You want platform items? Get involved with your local party organization. Propose a resolution and work to get it adopted. Try to become a delegate to the state convention and then try to become a delegate to the national convention. Plan on spending several election cycles of active participation, though, before you get to be a delegate to either.

There is only one way that items become part of the Democratic Party platform, and DU isn't part of that process. It all happens within the official Democratic Party organization. If you want changes, you need to become and active part of that organization.

[jeepers]

26. The political process is broken or maybe I should use the word owned.

You will not get change from Washington. You need to start over with a new constitution and a truer democracy. A discussion on the General Welfare clause in the preamble to the constitution is also needed as is follow up discussion on States rights.

[MineralMan]

27. And exactly how do you thing your 'new constitution'

and 'truer democracy' are going to happen? What would the process to implement either be? It's easy to say that, but not so easy to make it happen.