honestly left leaning places should do this more. the right does it when they make cruel laws to torture dissidents - all the left needs to do is trigger them and get them to leave.
maybe require identification on social media (dislike but rightwing trolls get hurt more) ,
ban vehicles over a certain size on class c licenses (like 4k lbs, intentionally low enough to ban big pickup trucks),
ban private schools and fund schools from state taxes entirely instead of city for equity,
require highschoolers to take classes on psychology and parenting,
make sex ed mandatory and lgbt inclusive,
build up light rail and ban cars in cities except for delivery purposes,
require garbage to be sorted and actually fine people,
massively shorten prison sentences and focus on re education to end “prison culture”,
tax incentivize continual adult education,
document undocumented immigrants
pay black people reparations
ensure access to abortions and contraceptives to everyone, including minors
legally mandate vaccines
institute a maximum wage,
institute election spending maximums,
ban landlords, the local govt takes ownership of rental properties and contracts property managers or something
Good except:
ID on social media: I believe in a fully anonymous web, maybe instead mandate them to ban right wing and alt left accounts?
Ban private schools: This hurts alternatives to governmental things
Mandate vaccines: Good, except that this would worsen their reputation, mandating would be more conspiracy-able
Government takes rental properties: No, the alt left tried that, no, just no. What could work is the government determining the rent on a property.
Social media ID cuts both ways. Fascists would be the ones willing to use it to fuck people.
Require garbage to be sorted and actually fine people.
There was a guy in DC that got roasted, fined an entire apartment building because he found a single can in the trash stream. I like the idea, but there’s a lot of power in that inspector postion.
massively shorten prison sentences and focus on re education to end “prison culture”,
I like it, we also need to super prop up the people that get out. Strong programs to keep them employed and fed and a support net to keep them from dropping back through the cracks. Most would be willing to work and become productive but the system is designed to reclaim them.
build up light rail and ban cars in cities except for delivery purposes,
That’s fine if you never want to leave the city. A cheap driveshare program dedicated to city users with easy access from the subway would probably be needed. Also the subway is somewhat more unreliable than I’d like to see that pass.
ban landlords, the local govt takes ownership of rental properties and contracts property managers or something
That’s another hard one. If the local government owns it, if the right gets in again, they could just destroy the poor. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have some working social systems, but building a utopia probably can’t start in the middle of NYC. We’d need to go disney style and put in something semi rural as a testing ground.
Every single one of those will take about a decade in court battles to get passed (at a federal level). It could be quicker if you figure out how to introduce legislature on a state-level, but that is an incredibly volatile strategy (every state’s billionaires will fight against it). Many, if not all, will lose out unless you strategize grass-roots movements for every single one of those issues. People love cops. People love blaming poor people. People love blaming others on their problems. No legislature of yours will fix that, so you also need to fix societal issues.
Just saying, this is what people say when they talk about idealism over pragmatism. It’s great to have big ideas, but you need exponentially larger ideas on strategizing to prevent those ideas from failing. None of this will happen overnight unless something revolutionary happens, and Democrats don’t want that—they will fight against radical change, it goes against the party’s entire ideology. Measured, temperate, incremental change is the policy of the Democrats. These are incredibly radical ideas to the normal voting population and you have to convince them, not us autists on lemmy, that they are worth spending time and energy on instead of putting food on the table or stressing out on bills.
They’re all great ideas that should work in theory and probably would in practice in many ways, but having good ideas isn’t what gets votes. Having a plan all while appealing to low information voters (absolutely necessary, and is what destroys this world at the moment unfortunately and no new law will fix that) is the name of the game.
Uh, that first one is kinda dumb. Very much unnecessary and kinda goes along the same line of thinking as republicans giving up their rights so that minorities have it worse.
You know how Texas just threatened tariffs on people moving in? He should do the opposite; a large% tax on anyone attempting to change their residency to a non NY one.
Youre a bilionaire who wants to leave NY? cool- that $10M in property you own should just about cover it, along with a check for a couple million. Otherwise you can keep paying taxes here.
honestly left leaning places should do this more. the right does it when they make cruel laws to torture dissidents - all the left needs to do is trigger them and get them to leave.
idk what else?
Good except:
ID on social media: I believe in a fully anonymous web, maybe instead mandate them to ban right wing and alt left accounts?
Ban private schools: This hurts alternatives to governmental things
Mandate vaccines: Good, except that this would worsen their reputation, mandating would be more conspiracy-able
Government takes rental properties: No, the alt left tried that, no, just no. What could work is the government determining the rent on a property.
Social media ID cuts both ways. Fascists would be the ones willing to use it to fuck people.
There was a guy in DC that got roasted, fined an entire apartment building because he found a single can in the trash stream. I like the idea, but there’s a lot of power in that inspector postion.
I like it, we also need to super prop up the people that get out. Strong programs to keep them employed and fed and a support net to keep them from dropping back through the cracks. Most would be willing to work and become productive but the system is designed to reclaim them.
That’s fine if you never want to leave the city. A cheap driveshare program dedicated to city users with easy access from the subway would probably be needed. Also the subway is somewhat more unreliable than I’d like to see that pass.
That’s another hard one. If the local government owns it, if the right gets in again, they could just destroy the poor. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have some working social systems, but building a utopia probably can’t start in the middle of NYC. We’d need to go disney style and put in something semi rural as a testing ground.
Every single one of those will take about a decade in court battles to get passed (at a federal level). It could be quicker if you figure out how to introduce legislature on a state-level, but that is an incredibly volatile strategy (every state’s billionaires will fight against it). Many, if not all, will lose out unless you strategize grass-roots movements for every single one of those issues. People love cops. People love blaming poor people. People love blaming others on their problems. No legislature of yours will fix that, so you also need to fix societal issues.
Just saying, this is what people say when they talk about idealism over pragmatism. It’s great to have big ideas, but you need exponentially larger ideas on strategizing to prevent those ideas from failing. None of this will happen overnight unless something revolutionary happens, and Democrats don’t want that—they will fight against radical change, it goes against the party’s entire ideology. Measured, temperate, incremental change is the policy of the Democrats. These are incredibly radical ideas to the normal voting population and you have to convince them, not us autists on lemmy, that they are worth spending time and energy on instead of putting food on the table or stressing out on bills.
They’re all great ideas that should work in theory and probably would in practice in many ways, but having good ideas isn’t what gets votes. Having a plan all while appealing to low information voters (absolutely necessary, and is what destroys this world at the moment unfortunately and no new law will fix that) is the name of the game.
Uh, that first one is kinda dumb. Very much unnecessary and kinda goes along the same line of thinking as republicans giving up their rights so that minorities have it worse.
no thats exactly it.
Require High Schoolers to also learn Civics and critical thinking.
Exams on civil rights history
You know how Texas just threatened tariffs on people moving in? He should do the opposite; a large% tax on anyone attempting to change their residency to a non NY one.
Youre a bilionaire who wants to leave NY? cool- that $10M in property you own should just about cover it, along with a check for a couple million. Otherwise you can keep paying taxes here.
Wealth tax. Probably more useful than maximum wage, anyway.
I was with you until the trash sorting. That sounds like a great way to get people to recycle even less.