perpetual collapse

rockyanderson2012:

“Have you had enough?” asks Rocky Anderson.
“Would you support the formation of a new party that will commit to:

Economic Justice:

• Implement major domestic green jobs and infrastructure programs
• Re-establish and make viable workers’ right to organize
• Create a fair, democratic, and transparent financial sector that serves the needs of start-ups, small business and consumers
• End incentives for U.S. companies to send jobs overseas
• Enact a financial transaction tax that will curb reckless speculation and provide revenue for job creation, job training and education
• End the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy
• Compassionate and rational immigration reform
• End to subsidies for oil and gas companies
• Free education through four years of college or equivalent as a right
• Protect public investments by opposing and reversing the privatization of public assets

Environmental Justice:

• Enforce employee and environmental safeguards in trade agreements
• Ban the Canada-to-Mexico tar sands pipeline and mountain top removal
• Enhance air and water quality protections by strengthening the EPA
• Take aggressive action and leadership on the climate crisis and the environment

Social and Civic Justice:

• Affordable universal health care through Improved Medicare for All
• An end to the wars; reduce the military budget and redirect money to domestic economy
• Marriage equality
• End race and gender discrimination
• Treat substance abuse within a public health framework rather than as a criminal matter
• Repeal the PATRIOT Act
• Abolish corporate personhood and implement campaign finance reform to end the corrupting influence of money in politics
• Prosecute the illegal conduct that led to the economic melt-down

I want to believe in this person, that this platform has any kind of chance… but without instant runoff elections, I can’t imagine enough people taking the risk… So far the MSM has ignored him entirely. No surprise there. 

(via solitaryforager)