Comment by burnt-resistor
8 days ago
The oligarchs would roll on the ground laughing at this cute desire from the plebs for a few crumbs. The system is so corrupt and bought, it doesn't matter if this passes or not because it will be diluted, unenforced, and/or overturned by a largely corrupt legislature, executive, and judiciary. All hopeful this time™ feel-good efforts will turn to shit until the corruption is sufficiently removed and prevented. No amount of idealist wishing, "trying", protesting, or campaigning for a single issue can materially change the reality of extremely corrupt, criminal elites having captured the important levers of power. That's reality. Therefore, the first order of business is fixing the corruption before all other single issue advocacy can be addressed.
How do you propose fixing the corruption?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlGsQU4ZNhU
Nonviolent noncompliance, work stoppages, boycotts, sanctions, divestment, and further peaceful and effective measures until there are uniformly people in critical positions of power not beholden to the billionaire robber barons. Make it a criminal offense to be a paid lobbyist, abolish PACs and Citizens United, and every elected official profiteering. Keep going until wealth is firmly subordinate to civil authority. There is no perfect or magical plan that can be conveyed by a few sentences, so if you're out for a gotcha answer, you're not going to find a risk-free, batteries-included, cookie cutter blueprint anywhere from anyone.