Since four of the first five answers I’ve seen are so mild, let me give you what my list would include and tell me if I’m wrong or if I’m missing something:
- Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those known to have committed child sexual abuse from the Epstein files
- Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those related to Trump’s corruption schemes which are:
- Stealing oil from Venezuela
- Insider trading during the current aggressive unprovoked full-scale genocide against Iran, Lebanon and possibly all nations in the Middle East, including US all allied nations in the Middle East except for Israel.
- Cryptocoin frauds
- Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those involved in war crimes
- Designate all detractors of these demands as rape, murder, thievery, and pedophile protectors
- Establishment of an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate allegations of ICE brutality
- Retraction of any designation for this protest made as anything other than peaceful
- Release of every political arrest made during this protest and any protest prior that are still in prison with exception of the Jan 6th Capitol storming
- Reimprisonment of every pardoned criminal during Trump’s presidency
- An amendment that abolishes the first past the post winner-takes-all system.
- Instead it should have indirect elections to prevent campaign fraud (so you only elect local leaders, who elect those above them) and an approval voting system, but if that is deemed to radical here, then at least have initial proportional representation, with a majority amount of seats shuffled towards the winning coalition in order to prevent lame duck governance.
- An amendment that guarantees all citizens, including prisoners universal basic income
- An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership of basic housing
- An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership a basic amount of land that can prove themselves to be Indigenous First Nations US-soil Native American
- Rewrite the 13th amendment to abolish of slavery in prisons
- An amendment that secures roaming rights by making any vagrancy and loitering law illegal
- Have the amendment above include making it illegal to restrict access to gated communities. So no walking or driving around 10-meter-high, kilometer-wide walls.
- Amendment that guarantees continuous slower traffic paths through faster traffic paths, so walkways > bike lanes > roads.
- Repeal the Patriot Act
- Universal Health Care
- Nationalize all casinos except those owned by native Americans
- End all sanctions and embargoes on other countries
How would a term limit or especially age limit be anti Democratic? If someone “in power” abuses that power, there’s a limit to the damage that can be done. Even more, the system of checks and balances is not working as Trump is basically doing whatever he wants.
Long term thinking would be getting out of the broken 2 party system that the media and billionaire-controlled propaganda are spewing to keep focus on division rather solutions.
Both current “parties” are corrupt-whether equally or not it’s irrelevant. The argument of minimum wages is a joke because Democrats held office for 12 of the last 18 years it hadn’t changed.
We need to not only elect independent candidates for various offices positions, we need to fight to change the law eliminating corporate overreach by funding their campaign pets who will change the laws to their donor’s benefits (like Elon and Trump)
A. Stop using big tech it shrinks their hold over there American people as all as their buying power. B. Choose independent candidates who actually fight for the people. Not “a side” you mostly align with. C. Vote vote vote as much as anyone can. D. DO NOT BRING YOUR DEVICES to any protests as their often tracked, monitored, etc.
Term limits are anti-democratic as you are removing popular choices from government.
Imagine a politician who is competent and serves the public, the public keeps re-electing them, so you … block them from serving again? To replace them with an untested politician?
Term limits also limit long-term thinking as a politician in their last term has no real accountability or incentives.
I didn’t say anything about age limits. My point was about term limits: they reduce voter choice based on an arbitrary claim that they function as some kind of harm-reduction mechanism, which is hard to take seriously given how obviously dysfunctional the American system is. Term limits do not solve elite capture, corruption, or institutional failure; they just act as another inertial mechanism that constrains democratic choice and blocks the kind of massive structural change the U.S. clearly needs. Most of your reply was a rant about broader problems I never said anything about, but none of it actually answered the point I made.
Term limits also limit positive change. They are meant to prevent change in general.