Since four of the first five answers I’ve seen are so mild, let me give you what my list would include and tell me if I’m wrong or if I’m missing something:
- Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those known to have committed child sexual abuse from the Epstein files
- Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those related to Trump’s corruption schemes which are:
- Stealing oil from Venezuela
- Insider trading during the current aggressive unprovoked full-scale genocide against Iran, Lebanon and possibly all nations in the Middle East, including US all allied nations in the Middle East except for Israel.
- Cryptocoin frauds
- Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those involved in war crimes
- Designate all detractors of these demands as rape, murder, thievery, and pedophile protectors
- Establishment of an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate allegations of ICE brutality
- Retraction of any designation for this protest made as anything other than peaceful
- Release of every political arrest made during this protest and any protest prior that are still in prison with exception of the Jan 6th Capitol storming
- Reimprisonment of every pardoned criminal during Trump’s presidency
- An amendment that abolishes the first past the post winner-takes-all system.
- Instead it should have indirect elections to prevent campaign fraud (so you only elect local leaders, who elect those above them) and an approval voting system, but if that is deemed to radical here, then at least have initial proportional representation, with a majority amount of seats shuffled towards the winning coalition in order to prevent lame duck governance.
- If indirect elections with approval voting is considered acceptable, I suggest that each for political position one must complete a civil exam created by an independent institution. Failing to pass will result into disqualification for that term’s elections.
- An amendment that guarantees all citizens, including prisoners universal basic income
- An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership of basic housing
- An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership a basic amount of land that can prove themselves to be Indigenous First Nations US-soil Native American
- Rewrite the 13th amendment to abolish of slavery in prisons
- An amendment that secures roaming rights by making any vagrancy and loitering law illegal
- Have the amendment above include making it illegal to restrict access to gated communities. So no walking or driving around 10-meter-high, kilometer-wide walls.
- Amendment that guarantees continuous slower traffic paths through faster traffic paths, so walkways > bike lanes > roads.
- Repeal the Patriot Act
- Universal Health Care
- Nationalize all casinos except those owned by native Americans
- End all sanctions and embargoes on other countries
- Close down the Board of Peace
- Close down all ICE death camps
Nationalize the large firms and key industries, end all embargoes and sanctions on other countries, redistribute land from the landlords and private firms, end all overseas millitary bases, end all wars and pull out of NATO. Begin building mass rail, solar, and nuclear by engaging with strategic partnerships with China. Land back and decolonization of Turtle Island. Building up the productive forces via central planning and strong state funding, while gradually appropriating medium firms as they grow and monopolize.
Dismantling settler-colonialism and imperialism are the primary tasks of building socialism on Turtle Island.
Production and distribution will be run according to a common, scientific plan. Worker’s councils will be set up, alongside youth leagues. Social programs like free healthcare and education will be established, and a reduction to the 30 hour work week in the long-run. Full-employment will be achieved via mass infrastructure projects. The country will be connected and integrated with the city, suburbs will gradually be pivoted away from in favor of mixed-use, walkable city planning.
Full protections for LGBTQIA+ individuals and abortion protections. Religion will be purged from the state in all aspects, while being protected as an individual choice. Prison reform will be established, focusing on rehabilitation and ending the profit motive from incarceration. Police budgets will be slashed. National parks will recieve greater land and funding for protections, as will scientific advancement in medicine and more.
This seems like a lot, but it all stems from nationalizing the large firms and key industries, as well as redistribution of land, land back, and decolonization. As imperialism decays, the economic compulsion for self-reliance grows, meaning if the working classes can establish a socialist state then we can achieve the rest gradually.
If those ideas sound good to you, and you haven’t yet engaged with Marxist-Leninist theory, I made a basic study guide! Feel free to check it out!
But that would be communist!
Don’t you know that a society can’t be truly free unless the ones with power have the freedom to oppress those who don’t?
Oh silly me! /s
Sounds like a good start.
Only the beginning, before we can abolish class distinctions and fully collectivize production and distribution globally.
- Private equity out of family housing
- Public compulsory health insurance
- Progressive property tax based on number of residences
- Social programs for helping Homelessness and helping people own their first home
- Cap rent prices to an indexed table, tax landlords heavily if they rent multiple places
Off the top of my head …
- free public health care for all.
- forgive all medical debt
- free public education for all, including college.
- forgive all student loan debt
- universal basic income
- more public housing. Homes are owned by the people who live in them, or the state. No profit seeking private orgs.
- close the “buy borrow die” loopholes, where people get untaxed loans to access their wealth without paying taxes
- more tax on the wealthy
- look into making property tax progressive like income. That is, the first $nnn of your house is untaxed, the next chunk at some percent, the following chunk at a greater percent, and so on.
- all Republicans removed from office. They are barred from government positions for life, as well as any private role with decision making power.
- break up mega corps. Disney, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Their current leadership has their wealth seized, and they are barred from leadership positions for life.
- invest heavily in public transit and safety improvements to existing roadways. Cars are literally killing us as well as sapping our resources.
- mandatory profit sharing for employees.
- mandatory pay transparency
- maximum pay gap between roles. No more janitor making $7/HR while the CEO makes $300/hr
- accounting hijinks to pretend like your org made no profit, or “they’re not employees they’re contractors” are punishable by seizure of all wealth and a prohibition from similar roles for life
- come up with something so venture capitalist bros aren’t deciding the future, if the above doesn’t somehow fix it.
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That’s more like it.
I would be happy with one guideline: taxpayers should see and feel the impact of their tax dollars.
It feels like that’s currently not a priority at all. The govt can just hand the money to some middleman who pockets 90% for a job worth 10%, and no one checks on it. DOGE was the pinnacle of this practice; honestly felt like Elon and Trump said “hey, you know what would be funny?”
Forgive medical debt, make collecting on medical debt illegal, and force 10x reimbursement for collections and court fees going back 10 years. Allow amounts to be recouped from personal assets. The courts would need to pay back 10x the legal fees imposed and the corrupt “judges” (actually magistrates, attorneys hired by the courts) would have to pay as well, collection agencies would fold because of these reimbursements and their filthy lawyers would lose their assets.
Repeat this process for all predatory collection systems in the USA. Private Equity firms that steal people’s trailers by raising lot fees, Private Equity that take over HOAs to amass fees and put leins on houses …
All power to the soviets
At that point you don’t do a protest, those are revolution numbers. Storm the government offices (who’s gonna stop you? The police and army are on your side apparently) and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat.
No, a couple million well organised protestors and 60% passive support are revolution numbers. This is well beyond that.
There would always be loyal followers, plus oligarchs with lots of drones who all want to maintain power.
In context, Trump won 2024 with only 77 million voters. If you can get 100+ million to show up, that’s enough to demand control over Congress and the Presidency.
If I’ve got 100 million people behind me we’re not doing “congress” or “presidents” any more
- Set minumum wage to a living wage +auto adjust annually per inflation
- Medicare for all
- Replace social security with a retirement plan baked into the essential budget
As a bit of a left field addition to other good suggestions already in this thread:
Rescind the fiduciary duty of any officer in a corporation to increase shareholder value no matter what. Exceptions must be made for cases where it would hurt the environment (anywhere on the planet and judging by the strictest state laws in effect), cause excessive loss of jobs, or hurt consumers.
I think a lot of problems of late stage capitalism are downstream consequences from this stupid law.
I think a lot of problems of late stage capitalism are downstream consequences from this stupid law.
Not really. Capital accumulation above all else is what makes capitalism capitalism. Even without that specific law the system as a whole incentivises and and pushes towards this end.
You’re criticizing capitalism fundamentally, which is valid. I wasn’t going that far. I didn’t think revolution was within the scope of this imaginary protest agenda we’re setting here. So baby steps. Reining in unbridled capitalism wherever possible (and necessary) is better than nothing.
I take no issue with that I just think you were misdiagnosing the issues as downstream of a single law as opposed to structural inevitability of the capitalist system whether that specific law exists or not.
What’s the exact law called?
Calling it one law may have been oversimplifying it on my part. It’s more of a concert of laws and case law. Here is a summary with sources.
Representatives pay would be capped at a salary of the average of their constituents + a stipend for DC (maybe a little above average, but not terribly). Medical would also be that.
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Term limits are antidemocratic and largely unhelpful as they disincentivise long term thinking. There’s a reason Amerikkka only put them in place in 1951 after FDR.
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I didn’t say anything about age limits. My point was about term limits: they reduce voter choice based on an arbitrary claim that they function as some kind of harm-reduction mechanism, which is hard to take seriously given how obviously dysfunctional the American system is. Term limits do not solve elite capture, corruption, or institutional failure; they just act as another inertial mechanism that constrains democratic choice and blocks the kind of massive structural change the U.S. clearly needs. Most of your reply was a rant about broader problems I never said anything about, but none of it actually answered the point I made.
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Your opening is the standard lazy shitlib straw man. Saying term limits are anti-democratic does not mean “give Trump a third term,” it means voters should decide rather than having the state pre-emptively remove options from the ballot. That is what a term limit is. It’s not some magical anti-corruption device, but an arbitrary legal restriction on who people are allowed to vote for, imposed on the theory that limiting democracy somehow protects democracy. In practice it does nothing to fix donor capture, party corruption, media manipulation, or institutional decay; it just narrows voter choice while the same unelected interests keep their power completely untouched. The rest of your reply is you wandering off into a generic rant about the two-party system and independents, which has nothing to do with the actual point I made.
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Term limits are anti-democratic as you are removing popular choices from government.
Imagine a politician who is competent and serves the public, the public keeps re-electing them, so you … block them from serving again? To replace them with an untested politician?
Term limits also limit long-term thinking as a politician in their last term has no real accountability or incentives.
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Term limits also limit positive change. They are meant to prevent change in general.
Representatives shouldn’t make any money at all. We don’t need poor people trying to represent us.
It’s a job, they should get paid.
They can get paid through insider trading. Why do we need to pay them an honest salary?
Remove the power dynamics created by capitalism. That’s the real problem with capitalism and why they fear socialism because socialism also removes the power dynamics
To be clear, socialism retains administration and organization, it just gradually abolishes class divisions.
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This is literally me. This is exactly what I would believe if I was illiterate.
That’s not how any of this works.
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Socialist countries have brought comprehensive democratization for society every time they have been established.
That’s not how classes work under any system
If the army and police are on our side, why bother with demands? Nobody else matters.
The issue is that the solution is a large increase in the minimum wage, more regulation over the healthcare industry, and a lot more taxes on the rich. 40% of the population have been brainwashed into believing the solution is a bad thing.
No that’s not the solution, that’s a stopgap at best. A mild reform. It does nothing to address the core contradictions that drive capitalist crisis.
Year zero, destroy all computers and return to agricultural living. binoclards eliminated
Mmm butlerian jihad, it is calling me.
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