Justice Democrats - A Movement Opposed to Corporate Democrats

[bshole]

This movement does not accept any corporate money at all. Pretty sure this was what Bernie Sanders is.

https://justicedemocrats.com/

• Wall Street reform, in particular re-regulation and reinstatement of the Glass–Steagall legislation and prosecution of white-collar crimes
• Amendment of the tax codes to benefit the middle and lower classes, including elimination of loopholes and imposition of the Buffett Rule
• A federal minimum wage equal to the cost of living and tied to the rate of inflation
• Single-payer universal health care
• Universal access to higher education, thus ending the student debt crisis
• Opposition to trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the North American Free Trade Agreement that lead to the outsourcing of jobs
• Strong support for free speech, net neutrality, and opposition to censorship
• Opposition to bigotry, racism, sexism, and xenophobia, including expansion of non-discrimination protection laws to protect LGBT people and atheists, and banning foreign aid to regimes that violate human rights[3]
• Abolish the death penalty.
• Amend gun regulation. Enact a universal background check, ban assault weapons, ban high capacity magazines, implement a voluntary federal buy-back program with the goal of reducing the number of firearms in the United States from the current 300+ million
• Ban arming of human rights offenders, and hold allied nations accountable on this front.
• Defend women's rights. Support the Paycheck Fairness Act, oppose republican funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, strongly oppose efforts to dismantle reproductive rights.
• Drastic reduction of U.S. military presence and involvement to encompass defense alone, with application of the savings particularly to domestic infrastructure.
• End US nation building.
• End constitutional overreaches by the government. Ban the NSA from bulk data collecting and warrant-less spying. Shut down Guantanamo Bay and ban all extrajudicial prisons. Prosecute those who carried out torture in violation of the Geneva Conventions, the Nuremberg Tribunals, International and US law. Return and support due process and habeas corpus. Pardon and support the rights of whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning.
• Amendment of drug policy with focus on "legalization, taxation, and regulation" of currently illegal drugs, expansion of addiction treatment programs, and pardons and commutation of sentences for those serving prison time for non-violent drug offences.
• Create a renewable energy revolution, support sustainable energy, move away from dependency on fossil fuels, and avidly oppose those who deny climate change on these issues.
• Join the rest of the industrialized world in ensuring paid maternity leave, sick time, childcare, and vacation time. [10][11]
• Ranked choice voting should also be implemented to make third parties a viable option.
• All provisions of the voting rights act should be reinstated, and gerrymandering for partisan gain should be banned.
• Create new "New Deal" focusing on improvement of national infrastructure.
• Enact Police reform; end for-profit policing, require body cameras on every officer, create community oversight boards, and end stop & frisk. Appoint special prosecutors to hold police accountable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Democrats

 

[senseamp]

Democrats love to make "perfect" the enemy of good.

 

[BoomerD]

It doesn't matter. The corporations have all the money they need to buy politicians on both sides of the aisle.

"We the People" have been sold out...it's now all about "We the Corporations," and deny it all you want...they OWN us, lock, stock, and barrel. Denying it is like....

 

[Thump553]

It doesn't matter. The corporations have all the money they need to buy politicians on both sides of the aisle.

"We the People" have been sold out...it's now all about "We the Corporations," and deny it all you want...they OWN us, lock, stock, and barrel. Denying it is like....

So we all should just give up and do nothing?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Democrats love to make "perfect" the enemy of good.

Many seem to take the enemy of good and excuse it with a standard of perfection which never was. Such a low standard suits their abilities. The low end of of mediocre is the apex of their desires.

 

[werepossum]

Meh. Standard proggie bullshit.

A federal minimum wage "equal to the cost of living and tied to the rate of inflation" would by itself reduce this nation to Cuba or Venezuela in less than a generation.

 

[Blackjack200]

Democrats love to make "perfect" the enemy of good.

Nothing wrong with fighting for principles, as long as you remember the stakes when you get in the booth. I don't happen to agree with their position, but I think they're closer to the truth than the Schumer/Pelosi vacuum up as much corporate money as possible types.

 

[woolfe9998]

It's better than we get public financing of campaigns so that no one is ever taking corporate money. Public financing plus individual donations with a low cap per person. That's something all dems should agree on, even the "corporate" ones who take money from corporations because they run against a party who has no scruples about taking such money and they don't want to be at a disadvantage.

 

[woolfe9998]

Nothing wrong with fighting for principles, as long as you remember the stakes when you get in the booth. I don't happen to agree with their position, but I think they're closer to the truth than the Schumer/Pelosi vacuum up as much corporate money as possible types.

They should perhaps remember it before they enter the voting booth, like during the primaries when it might not be such a good idea for one dem to accuse another of being in bed with corporations because it might hurt them in the general and cause the other party to win the election. Ahem.

 

[alcoholbob]

Its an unfortunate name to pick if they dont want to be associated with the crazies ln the left.