You 2020: Platform

[Virtual ghost]

Don't dodge my questions, Canidate Powell.

Policy is the prerogative of the legislature, I don't understand why we have presidential candidates rattle off a list of policy concepts they have very little long term control over, except that wedge issues help to maintain the political status qoe. Things more pertinent that I'd rather know about a candidate:

As commander in chief, how competent are you as both a strategist and tactician?

What are your morals? How do you feel about humanity in general and the US's role in those morals?

What are your thoughts on the founding, constitution, and the current strengths and weaknesses of the American system?

Which aspects of American culture do you favor, and which do you oppose?

How skilled are you at negotiation and compromise? What are some examples?

Because some of "the candidates" in this thread aren't from US and for some of them it is also election year. In other words on this continent we tend to do it differently. We choose our head of state in parliaments, so if someone becomes a head of state that means that this someone has support of it. While parties in advance during elections say who will be their first choice. What in the end means that the parliament will not block the person unless there is something seriously controversial in proposals. Plus if the head of state seems to be a bad or unqualified person they can always remove him/her at any time. After that they choose another such person by certain criteria or they organize snap elections for the parliament. If people are unhappy in sufficient numbers they can also require such snap elections. What is good because you by quite large degree lower the chances of getting years wasted on the paralysis of the system due to cheap partisan blocks.



All the questions you have named are basically put in a way that only a textbook bureaucrat, insider and ideologue can really pass. What means that this is the profile you will get in the end. Especially in combo with having only two parties. This is why I said that the biggest problem in US is structure if the government and political system, everything else is more or less just the consequence of that. But you probably already know this.



Just saying.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Don't dodge my questions, Canidate Powell.

I didn't inhale and it was just locker room talk.

 

[Tellenbach]

See I'd do the opposite, push to eliminate most forms of the sales tax, retain an income tax, but expand the system to include negative income tax for anyone under the poverty line.

Tax season is a stressful period for many Americans. People don't like paperwork, especially paperwork that involves math. I think a top priority in any Administration would be to eliminate both stressors and also that ridiculous Daylight Savings nonsense.

 

[Red Memories]

Tax season is a stressful period for many Americans. People don't like paperwork, especially paperwork that involves math. I think a top priority in any Administration would be to eliminate both stressors and also that ridiculous Daylight Savings nonsense.

WHY DO WE HAVE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ANYWAY OMG ALL IT DOES IS CONFUSE MY BRAIN'S SLEEP PATTERN.

 

[Tomb1]

Staying on my message "Every City A Las Vegas," bookmaking, numbers, floating casinos, high-stakes poker rooms, and numerous other gambling dens/rackets all needs to be both legalized and privatized...anybody whose got the bankroll to back their own action gets to set up shop on any city and/or main street.

Also would remove a lot of the dumb restrictions on private buyer-seller transactions....especially in relation to the production and sale of alcohol.

 

[???]

I have some things in mind, but I'm not sure what the point of society should be anyway, and it just seems futile to tackle smaller problems when a larger one looms above them all. Materialism seems to be an underlying theme to the world right now, but I don't know if that's really important to the human race. Probably whatever gives people more choice and freedom to live how they choose to is best. So less restrictions. But it's also weird that corporations own the vast amount of monetary wealth; they have too much power to influence greed and abuse people and the environment. I think ideally, I'd like an economic system that "directly" values and rewards people for increasing the "overall" wealth of the economy, while also protecting the environment and the health of its citizens. So it wouldn't be driven by greed or chasing that dollar, but on a mutual respect for one another that benefits everyone. The reward system in a society like this would have to be more abstract than having a simple currency. And I don't know what that would need to look like. But that's where I would start for a Platform. Maybe I'd have to run as a third-party.