The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    This is the Revolution

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/12/2016 - 6:52pm |

    Fixing police-on-black abuse while improving on entrenched bias & lack of opportunity 

    Getting corporates to pay their fair share

    Handling ISIS while lowering our Mideast involvement while fending off Russian encroachment

    Migration to renewables while limiting the damage of global warming

    Lowering Africa and India's baby boom, maybe China's with new 2-child policy

    Continued job growth & lower-end wage growth (e.g. minimum wage hike)

    Slight return of manufacturing (micro-mills)

    Breaking the cost curve on cloned meat for animal kindness, water use, pollution, energy, land-use, ocean re-population... [cloned meat, not cloned animals]

    New effective long-use batteries for cars and buildings tied to smart grids everywhere

    Revamping education & learning for future many-careers generations (i.e. not 1820 model)

    More progress on women's roles in society and fair treatment

    A national plan for drone & auto traffic automation, with people transport

    Better nano-genetics for curing diseases and improving survivability

    Plan for an aging population

    Better understanding of psychology, mental illness & mental development as a core need

    Safer production-ready liquid salt reactors

    100% health care coverage with downward pressure on costs

    An inclusive EU-like framework for new democracies

    Legalizing/decriminalizing marijuana and a rehabilitation - not incarceration - approach to drugs

    Musk's hyperloop for fast travel

    Sane improvements on limiting access to guns and lowering chance for atrocities

    Easy access to birth control, abortion (especially medical) and critical female health services

    A commitment to a minimum human rights standard - from safety net to legal treatment to housing & education & fair job opportunity to humane conditions for the young, sick, disabled and elderly

    A sane immigration policy and updated view of mobility and citizenship/residence fitting 2020+

    Sane limits to cyberspying, and protection of privacy

    Extendable virtualized and prosthetized people

    Using society's resources to balance work and pleasure (no-guilt leisure)

    Please feel free to add your own.

    Comments

    Public Education Programs (EL-HI) that make sense (after how many centuries of education?).  Programs that are TRULY PUBLIC and pay their educators well.  Sensible reforms, like eliminating hardcover textbooks  rather than the typical trendy methods and expensive teaching tools that go in and out of vogue, but crank up costs to make profits for BS artists like the Bushes.  Oh!  And getting rid of the Texas hold on all textbooks, most particularly their take on history and science.  

     

    Sorry,  I couldn't limit this to a one-liner.

     

    i may be back with more.


    by CVille Dem on Sun, 03/13/2016 - 9:26pm

    Peracles, an exhaustive list.

    But isn't there some easy way to accomplish all of this by just nominating and electing the right person for President?

    I tend to look for key policies which would facilitate many goals in the list. I came up with 3.

    Early childhood education and a total revamp of resources going through the K-6 level.

    Investment incentives for companies to improve profits while at the same time sharing productivity gains with workers.

    Infrastructure spending on mass transit, particularly connecting remote and rural workers to higher paying jobs in metropolitan areas. (Housing and transportation costs in high job demand areas have created an endless poverty cycle for workers.)

     


    by Oxy Mora on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 1:56pm

    Don't know if exhaustive but I feel exhausted. Too much Trump, no oxygen for the intelligent sides of our brains. What's our agenda before he defines it for us - it seemed like such a nice century.


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 3:55pm

    Yeah, I will buy into the list. In toto, as it were.

    THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS.

    Why not?

    I really cannot disagree with anything on the list.

    But like Lisb noted a few weeks (or months ago) we face gerrymandered districts and governors who

    hate anyone without funds, without health insurance, without hope? And the Congressmen who eschew any help to those folks.

    Help me through the year for chrissakes, let alone the night.

     


    by Richard Day on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 3:41pm

    Well they wanted heart, not head - hopefullyy I gave a bit of both. (save it, JR)

    Gerry Mander or Jerry Mathers?


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 4:20pm