Ask Lemmy

I won't get a second term, but that's because I'm trans.

I'm going to start by putting forward several amendment proposals including one that removes presidential immunity, one that prohibits partisan gerrymandering, and one that mandates the right to bodily autonomy, as well as reintroducing the ERA, with full assertions of gender presentation and sexual orientation as well. I'd also push one for medical care. None of these amendments will have a deadline as I wouldn't expect them to make it through the states.

I'd give Puerto Rico and DC the right to become a state, as well as offering Puerto Rico independence if they'd prefer, which would not be popular.

I'd push through a full blown single payer healthcare bill.

From there I'd start talking to experts in Keynesianism. I don't like capitalism, but I'm not making America socialist in 3 years without a complete destruction of social order. But we're in a precarious position and the economy is torn between inflation and recession which demand opposite policies. My suspicion is that it will demand taxing the wealthy and spending on the struggling. Also I'd of course instill Lena Kahn to do her thing

This is where I can do a real green new deal. If people can't afford rent and can't find work then they can build Council housing owned by municipalities, built around public transit lines or places to put them. They can install publicly owned fiber internet lines and publicly owned renewable energy generation. I'd also want to build a high speed rail line from Chicago to Pittsburgh with plans to extend it to NYC, as well as Seattle to the bay area and the 3CD line in ohio (Cleveland-Columbus-Dayton-Cincinnati). With all of this of course I'd be offering a better deal to American manufacturers to provide the materials with a bonus for cooperatively owned suppliers. I'd also put forward a request that every state government look into how to implement an intrastate rail network.

Furthermore I'd be doing fireside chats like FDR to explain what I'm doing and why as well as demonstrating austerity within the presidency. I'd also travel the country speaking to unions and asking everyday people about their current struggles. Making ordinary folks feel heard goes incredibly far

For foreign policy, I'd be really speaking about how my aims are to make America as stable as we once were rather than demanding other countries submit to us or trust us again. Trust is earned and an unstable country can't be trusted.

The hope is that my directly targeting material conditions and talking my way through it I can cut the right wing support out from under it.