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The community for creating a new US political party, so far our guiding principle is that billionaires are trash, United Health CEO had it coming, The Adjustor is our mascot and our main raison d'etre is to shit on the rich and take back whats rightfully ours.

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What policy points do you feel are the most important? (midwest.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Pandantic@midwest.social to c/newpoliticalparty@lemmy.world

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This topic will be about what policies you feel are important for this new political party. Don’t be afraid to downvote to disagree, but remember: more can be done with discussion, debate, and constructive criticism than downvotes alone.

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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I support any policy based on the idea that there is such a thing as too much.

I love all these points people have posted. I don't see much disagreement even though we all have our key issues that are deeply important to us for personal reasons. There's a real hunger for deep change out there.

You know what's really personal and also universal?

The feeling of vulnerability and humiliation that comes from someone higher up in the tree dropping a shit on you.

Excess wealth is the problem. Outside of our Lemmy bubble, there isn't even a general discussion on this, even though there seems to be widespread agreement that murdering people from your office desk is evil.

There's a significant cultural tendency of deifying and hating the rich. We are confused, case in point the huge groundswell of support for Luigi Mangione. People instinctively crave and are often simultaneously repulsed by wealth.

So my personal policy is to make it widely acceptable to express righteous anger at the way we are being soiled.

It is the memory of being shit upon that gives me anger, the anger acquires friends, together we issue a warning, It is by willful anger alone that we set this thing in motion.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because being screwed (or knowing someone who was screwed) by an insurance company, Luigi Mangione’s action seemed to gain universal support.

One of the things that I wonder is: how can we get people pissed at the right people about things like price gouging, predatory landlords (especially those large rental companies), and the baking systems. Everyone is being screwed by their grocery stores and the banking systems, and many by their landlords. Yet, it seems like we can’t get traction in the right direction regarding these things. Companies blame grocery prices on inflation and people believe it. The housing market is a mess, and many companies have bought up house to rent so there are less for people to buy, but there’s not much talk about that. And banking is predatory af and has been for a long time, and relying on credit unions doesn’t work for everyone, but it’s just accepted as part of life.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Well, this is probably better for the messaging post. In a nutshell, we find a drum and beat it endlessly for a generation.

There is such a thing as too much, and it’s okay to say so.

Message discipline is what turns diffuse anger into focused actions.