My name is Kris Baakkonen and I am just an American guy, a long time DailyKos reader, and a progressive. I just wanted to point out that they're in fact 22 GOP senate up for election in 2020 and with the 48 Democratic seats we current have(with 2 Independents), if we (meaning the Democrats) were to win them all—we would have 70 seats https://www.270towin.com/2020-senate-election/29qGV2. And I read somewhere that ½ the US doesn’t vote – so if we start a Reddit campaign to get everybody to vote -- Victory! Really. So if a campaign we made every Democrat was committed to pass the following Amendments let’s call them the Second Bill of Rights and here is my humble attempt starting with Amendment 28…
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No citizen or a person who lives in country here may have more than $50 million. If they try to hide their money, there's a massive penalty every time, representing 90% of their remaining value. Everyone with over $50 million will be given $50 million minus the difference between what they have on 8/28/2019 and what they exchange when they exchange for all their money and possessions. In exchange for this they will not be criminally prosecuted for whatever crimes they announce when surrendering their money and goods.
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And I am all yeah no one can have more than more 50 million dollars! NO MORE BILLIONAIRES. Poof. Just like that Really? No more obscenely rich. “It unconstitutional”, the rich will scream. And we all, “It’s now in the constitution“. You can see the random person on the street going “I never voted but I think I just might”. You do that a 100,000,000 times a you actually have a movement. Yes, we could get additional 100,000,000 votes on this one issue. Think about the Pro Voting campaign you could mount. And the great thing is outside of only 70,000 (out of 330,000,000) are going to complain and these so called “losers” still get 50,000,000 dollars and absolved from anything they admit to, so cry me a river. And not forget who own this place. And finally, let's not--forget we are offering them 50,000,000, and NOT going all French on them.
Please do note that these amendments are in outline form. Our second action item like is actually figuring out what these amendment actually say is. And hey, once you have 67 senators, (and ok there is more to it than getting to 67 seats, but honestly if we get to 67 seats it will be like Patton at St. Lo. (ok it was not Patton, nor was it St Lo)) but it like time for a breakout and there is literally nothing between us and Germany. It is time to roll the tanks, (metaphorically speaking). So we should crowdsource the amendments about which ones we include and what they might say.
So, next we make it super easy to vote and reward counties on their voting percentage (with +0.05%). And let us not forget paper ballots.
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Voting is a right. Every citizen votes. Gerrymandering shall be outlawed, along with any other form of voter suppression. And going forward, we'll always make sure there's an easy way of voting—for example, the voting by mail which California already has. And we’ll pay people to vote $100/person/vote and local government on their voter participation (maybe something like multiplying the budget 1.05% for 100% and losing 0.01% for every drop in the percentage of non-voting citizens). There will be a proper census in 2022 and then every decade. Automatic registration. Paper ballots. Ranked choice voting.
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Can you believe we call ourselves a democratic society and then make it hard to vote? Shit.
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The Equal Rights Amendment.
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Abortion is always legal.
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The 2nd Amendment is repealed.
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Congress shall make all laws concerning guns. And there will be a universal federal background check to own a gun. And a federal licensees must pay at least $100 + cola min per gun per year (doubling every gun).
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End Citizen United. Money is not speech, other anti-corruption measures and election law. Voting period is one month long and ends on a Sunday. End PACs and SuperPACs. Government funding for elections.
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Equal rights for everybody that agrees with Amendment 49.
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Federal funding for reliable and responsible local news, and some kind of government agency or coalition to authoritatively decide what is and is not news (see Amendment 48).
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Term limits: 20 years a judge (including SCOTUS). 12 years Representatives, 18 for Senators. All federal judges appointed since 2016 are removed from the bench.
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All government employees, including Representatives and Senators and the President, and anyone else that works with the government (even tangentially) including lobbyists, contractors and vendors and all people with over one million in wealth will have their federal tax returns made public.
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Health Care is a right.
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Immigrants have rights. People born in the United States gain the right of provisional citizenship and gain the right to full citizenship by completing Amendment 41.
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Everyone who is born here become a provisional citizen. And kids born overseas to automatically become provisional citizenship. US Everyone can vote after saying “I want to vote” and is a provisional citizen after being born here till they are 18 years old, have undergone their national service, taken the oath and giving DNA and other bio other stuff to the government. (see Amendments 43 and 49).
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The Death Penalty is outlawed except authorized by Congress or because of war.
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All 18 year-old's must spend a year doing national service.
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All government employees including Representatives, Senators, and the President must follow ethics rules. Nobody is above the law, including the President. Lobbying must wait 10 years after government service of any kind.
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10% all tax revenue raise by implementing the 28th Amendment shall be distributed to the citizens, 90% goes to paying down the debt. If we still have money left over it goes to climate change.
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Religion has no place in the government.
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That was fun. OK now we deal with the asshole-n-chief which is stuff that has become painfully obvious our founders just assumed would work.Well, they did not count on the Donald, so …
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POTUS is elected by a simple majority of the citizenship. The President will be required to appear before congress weekly, when in session. The President gives up his 4th and 5th Amendment rights and others Amendments and the ability to accept a pardon, (either they are the President or they can have their rights). The President shall not self pardon. Will have press briefing at least once every 48 hours.
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Establish a fourth branch of government, a new "ombudsman" office that can remove a president from office, override picks for the cabinet, to override specific laws, prevent corruption and provide media oversight. The Ombudsman (staft) will have unfettered access to all Article Two meeting, where a meeting is defined as having more than two people. DOJ defined. AG reports to Ombudsman for anything related to the President or the Administration. Maybe elected once per decade for the succeeding decade. Must resign when intervening. May not be re-elected
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Isee the Ombudsman as a scholarly sort who does not want to be the Ombudsman and is selected by his peers put put up as their representative. Not that I want to ruin his retirement, but I assume this would perfect for Obama.
And then the oath which everybody must take, no grandfathering in this time.
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"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law. I also promise to treat every other American who takes this oath my de facto sibling. And I will take any commitment made by the United States to others at face value.”
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And last, but certainly not least.
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Global warming is to be considered the utmost importance and long term care of the planet is of the highest order.
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A couple of points, here. Citizenship is still based on birth right.Every child born in the USA becomes a provisional citizenship and may vote as soon as they can say “I want to vote” because we believe in voting and yes the child will be heavily influenced by their parents so what? (Kids born overseas to Americans still get to choose to be American.) They are still a person and deserved to be heard and we want to establish good voting habits starting young. So they are provisional citizen until they are I guess 19 when they must decide to become a USA citizen they completed Amendment 41 including the oath (Amendment 49) which is current the oath a person normally takes to become a citizen plus two sentence the first one make all brothers(and sisters) the second one allow congress to extend and recognize others. Like say recognizing Germany as (to use this metaphor) as cousins and the UK (after the brexit mess) as second cousins.
Sothen you have to deal with those people who will not take the oath.They can’t stay here and we can’t export them somewhere else. So we shall have to set up in the interior what will become States with their own Constitution. I have to be honest I haven’t a great deal of thought on this problem am not advocating a second class of citizenship but it is effectively what it will become. That too bad but not I am not living next to some enough firepower to take out a platoon and who insist that force birth is required for pregnant women. And if they can’t behave and they keep running over the border to kill then us, then we won't have an open border. It is up to them.
Andtrade. Every country a rating number. It is composed of three numbers, a friendship number, a climate change number and an evilness number. So like Germany would be 20 + 10 + 0. UK 30 + 10 + 0. Russia 60 + 50 + 100 (maybe a 1000). Brazil would be 30 + 60 +10. And China would be 60 + 20 + 50. (and with Hong Kong they are getting worse) These number are applied directly to the tariffs both ways. So we’ll trade, but for bad actors not cheaply.
So yeah is my idea and it is a big deal, a very BIG FUCKING DEAL and Moscow Mitch will be shitting in his pants. Basically we want more democracy and all we’re doing is asking everyone to vote for people who support the Second Bill of Rights. So I was going to place this on Reddit but apparently my karma is deficient so if you agree with me I give you permission to use my name when you post it there. There is no downside and this is literally the one chance to literally change America for the better. Join me, fuck the rich.
And free Hong Kong!