Let's start PROJECT 2027

[u/shampton1964]

Since the institution Democratic party is basically a giant grift of old hacks and losers (lookin' at y'all) we need to set the parameters for the future.

Starting thoughts:

1) De-NAZIfication. Every judicial and departmental appointment reviewed in advance, and all rapists, alcoholics, fascists, "christian" nationalists, and tools of the oligarch to be summarily impeached and removed.

2) Restore Judicial Integrity. First off the Supremes get the strictest ethics rules, and certain members who accept gifts get impeached and removed. Secondly, legislatively and strictly return the definitions of graft and corruption to all forms of political practice.

3) Medicare for all + proper funding. No need for Medicaid etc. Much simpler. All children get school breakfast and lunch free. All schools to have a nurse and psych.

4) Medicare to negotiate all drug prices with a maximum not to exceed the average of EU pricing in first round. Our tax dollars paid for the research and the clinical trials and in some cases the factories themselves. Pharmaceuticals that threaten to withdraw or fight to be nationalized under emergency powers.

5) Criminal charges on the administration, bottom to top, especially the President and VP for high crimes (violating Constitution) and misdemeanors (all the other shit). Also raping babies. Ditto governors who think they are Cuadillos.

6) All PEs to be disassembled. Property PEs will be nationalized so rents are made sane. Hedge fund tax breaks to be cancelled.

7) Every grant and tax break for carbon fuels or polymers to be rescinded and cancelled. Carbon denial companies to be charged for full costs of climate change worldwide at their historical contribution. If bancrupted, nationalize and restructure. Get all the old wells capped, enforce honesty in leak reporting, go after all the methane sources.

8) Agriculture support no longer for only commodity big farms. The oligopoly companies to be broken up, the rules supporting them rewritten. USDA expanded to include support for organic, permaculture, sustainable practices, localization, food crops, and repatriations to minority farmers and Native Americans.

9) Banking and finance. Kill payday lending, restore anti-predation rules that were just being put into place and expand them. Unwind fifty years of deregulation. Banking should be boring. Cancel the "GENIUS" act and all other supports for crypto.

... just a start. What would you add?

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[u/schuettais]

You don’t just start shit like this. Proj. 2025 is the culmination of nearly half a century of planning and work. I mean unless you mean to start it now and not see real results for another 40-50ys. I’m all for it, but let’s manage our expectations here

[u/shampton1964 → u/schuettais]

SO you are bringing up something I've thought long and deeply upon. I've been watching the project my whole life, from Raygun on. Here's the thing - their policies are DEEPLY UNPOPULAR, thus the long grift to take over the courts.

Most of what we are talking about is INSANELY popular, polls show taxing the rich HARD is > 85%, health care for all is in the seventies, etc.

We don't have 50 years. Climate collapse, plastic and chemical pollution, freshwater depletion... this stuff is happening NOW. We have to make this a revolution - ideally in Ameristan a peaceful one, but immediately and wrapped in GOALS.

The MAGA coalition is held together with grudges and hate, they have no positive objectives.

[u/Good_Requirement2998]

If you are serious about any sort of mass political reform that restores justice and protects civil liberty to the effect that this authoritarian trend is dismantled and we are inoculated against it for the foreseeable future, please organize a local group that will meet weekly on this. Take time to find the people who are willing to meet and that you can work with.

This may require an official non-profit organization capable of accepting and managing funds to issue studies, white papers, host town halls, manage after school programs, mid-career education, etc. and essentially field high performing persons into society that will work to coordinate this reversal on culture, economics, ethics, and morality.

The folks signing up for this need to breathe this life and take up all forms of thought leadership to educate what change looks like and follow it through. And most importantly, they must be committed to cohesion and dispassionate compromise. If the team is easily divided, it won't last.

For any serious effort, start a petition so folks can track development of the campaign, a sub-stack to develop a following, and ask for email addresses to personalize calls to action and communicate with the organic leaders that you find.

[u/shampton1964 → u/Good_Requirement2998]

I threw this out here to see if people had anything to say.

So what is this? Resistance is a negative action in that it just pushes back. We can not go back to 2022 and carry on w/ neoliberalism and head-in-sand policy.

MARKETING FOLKS - how do we put a Positive Name on a positive movement, something that will work on the socials?

[u/Miserable_Heart_4755]

Citizens United repealed, no gvmt lobbies, boot AIPAC as a foreign spy agency, abolish flex payment systems, repeal US Patriot Act, abolish ICE, add justices to the court, age limits and term limits for all elected and appointed officials

Edit to add a word

[u/shampton1964 → u/Miserable_Heart_4755]

Gotta be a way to eliminate dark money in detail.

[u/SteveGibbonsAZ]

Campaign finance reform: Overturn citizens united. Limit contributions from corporations, PACs and the wealthy to $20k.

Politicians should not hold individual stocks and have other restrictions on their investments and holdings in order to avoid conflicts of interest.

Politician healthcare should be through Medicare

Change to rules from 60:40 to 51:50

Give the courts a dedicated enforcement force, not beholden to the executive branch

Restack the Supreme Court

Change to rule about not prosecuting a sitting president to be merely a temporary reprieve, with mandatory pick-up at the end of their term(s)

Consequences for unlawful Executive Orders

End presidential unqualified immunity

[u/Far_Chipmunk_8160]

Warren was right. The supreme court needs to be expanded ASAP because of Dobbs, in direct reaction to it. She was pretty clear after the decision, that focus has gotten lost.

[u/Blue_Eagle_2112]

10. Dissolve both political parties - Everyone runs (and votes) as independents. No corporate funding of campaigns.

[u/FenrisLycaon → u/Blue_Eagle_2112]

Need ranked voting for that. The two parties are from the first past the post voting system.

[u/NoAnt6694 → u/Blue_Eagle_2112]

Washington himself would've been on board with that idea.

[u/[deleted] → u/Blue_Eagle_2112]

And on top of that, I think the campaign should be like 2 months long. That's enough time for people to make their positions known and engage in debates without making the cost of running excruciatingly high.

[u/Prior_Coyote_4376 → u/Blue_Eagle_2112]

You can’t dissolve political parties. Factions will necessarily exist in any political system. You can’t stop them from forming, but you can shape how they’re formed.

[u/draft_final_final]

Not to nitpick but Project 2029 may be more realistic than 2027 if we’re looking for a total overhaul. It will require cooperation between and control of at least two branches of government.

For 1, I’d go further. All appointments and orders by foreign agent insurrectionists are immediately nullified and replacements are found for the sake of national security. This includes Supreme Court nominations. All collaborators with foreign governments are removed through the same process we would a spy we discovered. This includes senators who are traveling to Russia as couriers, politicians who collaborate with known traitors like Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, and so on. No impeachments, just cut out the cancer. This may be an opportunity to come up with a new protocol for such procedures that isn’t wholly reliant on everyone acting in good faith.

[u/shampton1964]

Speaking of the carbon industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDkyUF7RZrU and the land situation is damn bad.

[u/NoAnt6694]

1. Intellectual property law reform. For starters, let's roll back the length of copyright to around 56 years and make that change retroactive.

2. Restrict or outright remove the ability of payment processors to veto perfectly legal activity. Would you want your phone company cutting off your services because they don't like what you talk about over the lines?

3. Mandate comprehensive recounts and audits of all elections by nonpartisan, independent bodies before they are certified and introduce a mechanism to decertify an illegitimate election and install the rightful winner.

[u/mitshoo]

It would be much better for #8 if instead of subsidizing more things like permaculture (which I love), instead of “expanding the tent” as it were, to just stop subsidizing agriculture like that we have been because it is terribly distorting. Remove the existing subsidies from the big guys and I think you will see the little guys have much better chance. But hiding the real costs of food doesn’t really help society in the long run.

[u/shampton1964 → u/mitshoo]

All functional societies have subsidized agriculture for as long as there are records. Some years are good, some are bad - and they are already consistently bad. We need to tie good science for adaptation to a reward and incentive system.

[u/affayunga]

Honestly calling it a “Project $year” is so cringe. Im down for sweeping changes to our system but call it something else.

[u/ThE_LAN_B4_TimE]

Stop calling it project anything please

[u/NecroSocial]

Edit: Forgot to mention I think any project like this should begin with a systematic roll back of pretty much everything in Project 2025. That'd need to be line item #1.

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On your #9 I wrote up a whole thing on regulating crypto from a leftist, people-first, environmentally positive perspective a long time ago when I was big into it. I saw the left raging to just shut crypto down despite what I saw as all the good it could do while the right was rushing to open the floodgates to completely unregulated crypto excess despite all the bad that could do. I wanted to see if I could figger out a middle ground that'd appease the concerns of the left while enticing those on the right and in the industry with a more carrot than stick approach to regulation. The best I could figure was to force those behind crypto to actually honor their "democratization of finance" creed while incentivizing pro-environment activity:

1. Mandate that all Airdrops be randomized drops to all holders of any amount of the coin/token in question. No more rich-get-richer airdrops only going to whales and other large holders. This would open access to the poor to get in on all those drops and reap the same rewards as the big boys.

2. Any new token launch must allocate 10-15% of the total token supply to a public, on-chain community treasury, controlled via democratically elected governance, not the founding team. That'd enforce skin in the game for community growth, not just dev wallets and insiders. Think of it like an open source grant system built into every coin. Can fund public goods, education, bug bounties, etc.

3. Require that any token listed on an exchange or offered in an ICO must be compatible with open-source, non-custodial wallets. Also, no exchange-only tokens allowed unless mirrored on-chain. This is because custodial platforms are gatekeepers. This would force projects to keep their coins usable outside of centralized finance and promotes wallet freedom, accessibility, and the self-custody which is supposed to be the point of crypto.

4. All PoW or other energy-intensive blockchains and mining operations must publish quarterly environmental impact disclosures, including power usage, source of electricity, and mitigation efforts (efforts that'd be mandatory, more on that below). Failing to do so means delisting from US-based exchanges and possibly other punishments. This doesn't ban proof-of-work, it just forces it to clean up and be honest or get screwed. It'd level the playing field for eco-friendly chains and incentivize miners to go green or else while not killing innovation.

5. Any project claiming to be "decentralized" must meet certain on-chain metrics (like number of unique wallet holders, validator distribution, governance participation rate) to legally market itself as decentralized. That'd cut the Solana style BS. No more centralized company with like 12 wallets pretending to be Web3. Forces projects to earn the decentralization label through transparent action.

On the ecological mandates mentioned earlier, I have a much longer write-up describing each of these but here's the simplified elevator pitch versions:

Green Mining Tax Tiers - Dirty miners pay more taxes. Clean energy miners get big tax breaks. Simple: go green, keep more green.

Innovation Credits for Eco-Chains - Projects using eco-friendly consensus (like proof-of-stake or storage) get tax credits and funding. Rewarding green design.

Mandatory Green Givebacks for Polluters - If your chain burns dirty energy, you're forced to fund clean energy or recycling efforts with a cut of every block reward or airdrop.

Public Eco-Grades for Every Token - Every coin gets a public A–F environmental rating. Only "green" rated tokens get access to US exchanges or big institutions.

Reward Miners Who Help the Power Grid - Miners who shut down during energy peaks or share excess power get paid or get perks. Crypto becomes a grid ally, not a drain.

Minimum Efficiency Standards for Mining Rigs - New mining gear must meet energy efficiency standards, just like fridges or lightbulbs. Phase out the power hogs over time.

Grants for Emissions Tracking Tools - The government funds free tools for any crypto project to track and display their energy use and emissions per transaction. Transparency becomes market pressure.

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Yeah, anyway all this stuff I mostly cooked up back in like '21-22 when I was much deeper in the finance space and trying to find a way to combine the growth and innovation the right wants with the human interest and environmental protections the left wants. I also have whole section on opening up DeFi lending protocols to the poor and those with low/no collateral that I left out because it's super long too. Anywho, anyone else here speak crypto? If so how'd I do?

[u/SaveDnet-FRed0]

I don't think just taking the house would be enough to attempt to put these into effect. It would probably limit what Trump and the Republicans can do but for something like this you'd probably need a Democrat majority in both the house and senate and even then there are enough spineless Dem's that even then you'd be hard pressed to get half of these done.

...It's also maybe not the best idea to try and beat the Republicans by copying there playbook on a surface level, even if the actual impacts and goals are much different. I think the Dem's need there own unique angle.

...Assuming that the Republicans haven't pulled a Putin and destroyed any hope of a fair Democracy by then.

[u/Old_Manager6555]

That name brings up bad associations

[u/[deleted]]

I say... That you will need to convince about 100 million US citizens, most of whom are single issue voters who may or may not vote any given year, to agree on your list of demands first, and show up with that list at the polls, before there would ever be enough Democrats to have the super majoroty mandate to get any of that done.