Dealing only with issues mentioned at ontheissues.org, this is my radical populist agenda:

Abortion: 100% pro-life from conception.

Affirmative Action: Require proportional representation for both women and minorities in government and in all private organizations.

Gay Rights: Full equality for homosexuals including marriage and adoption rights.

School Prayer: No school prayer in any circumstances.

Death Penalty: 100% opposed.

Mandatory Sentencing: Mandatory life in prison with no chance of parole for murder, rape and other sexual victimization and other extreme crimes.

Gun Control: Give women unquestioned gun rights, minimally regulate gun ownership among male minorities and heavily regulate it among white males.

Federal Health Care: Nationalize all health care and give unlimited free health care to all people.

Social Security: Give seniors an equitable share of the national wealth.

Education: Nationalize all education.

Environmentalism: Nationalize energy and convert to alternative energy.

Drugs: Toughen sentences against drug dealers; ban the sale and production but not the use of alcohol and cigarettes.

Religious Welfare: Ban all government contributions to religious charities.

Taxation: Equalize the net worth of all people on a monthly basis.

Immigration: Ban all immigration.

Trade: Use heavy tariffs as a diplomatic tool.

Foreign Policy: Cut military spending and use our troops to guard our borders; adopt an isolationist foreign policy.

Missile Defense: End spending on it.

Trade and Foreign Policy: Use embargos and heavy tariffs to punish nations that mistreat women or minorities.

United Nations: Withdraw from the United Nations.

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Oh, I would like to know what all of you think of this agenda. I appreciate all replies. Thank you very much.

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How does that apply to policy? How do you deal with it when the woman's life is in danger? Do you actually oppose birth control too?

When people are placed by a force other than peoples' will, there is a strong reaction. Black people and women get elected even in areas you would not expect. Also not all people in a certain demographic represent the majority of their group on all issues. We vote for merit, not for demographics.

Sounds good to me. Doesn't sound populist in either definition. It is not popular. And it gives all people the same rights under law. I do have issue with forcing churches to recognize gay marriage, but government should as long as they recognize traditional marriage.

I can understand no student prayer brought on by the school or anyone working at the school, but I hate to imagine a kid being expelled for praying of his own accord.

Agreed. It's not necessarily populist. One argument against death penalty is that it gives power over life and death to the state.

I don't like mandatory sentencing. Laws need some amount of vagueness and some judicial discretion. As much as we'd like to label all instances the same, there always turns out to be some complicated exception to the rule. And if we do discover good rehabilitation methods at a later date, we don't want to be stuck with laws that make them useless.

??????!!!!!! I just don't get it.

That could get really expensive. I think it is best to keep it private and try to encourage more preventative health care. Only certain circumstances really warrant government assistance.

I do agree with making sure the disabled and retired are able to live, preferably in a comfortable manner. But we need specifics. This is very dangerously broad. The opposite problem of the sentencing laws thing.

Not real sure where I stand on nationalization vs. privatation of school. Personally I don't think either will fix the problems we have.

I don't really think nationalization is a good idea. It doesn't work well in other countries, where governments go broke keeping prices down to keep people happy. I do agree that we should subsidize or create tax incentives for research and implementation of alternative energy sources.

We'll still have drug problems. And the effects of prohibition will be multiplied. The first part won't make much difference. The second will do more harm than good. Think of moonshine.

Why? If religious charities can provide the same service as secular ones, why draw a line?

Certainly kills any desire I have to work overtime... or put in any extra effort.

That's quite a turn. Banning immigration will cause population loss, lack of specialized professionals, and more illegal immigration.

Only work if other countries join us.

I think "neutral" is a better word, after reading Stekim's argument in another thread. That's typically what I mean when I say isolationism. Sometimes we have to do things outside our borders. We do need to keep up our defense though. But I basically agree.

We need to pay to maintain our missles so they don't leak, go off, quit working, or other stuff like that. But I think we have enough and ICBM is ineffective.

won't work unless other nations help. And like I said, grass roots movements work better than our imposing rules. Look into the SARTHI project in India. That is a project that has worked in uplifting rural Indian women from the bottom up. That is how you get it to work. Plant the seeds before you try to water the land.

I think most of the rest of the UN would approve of that also.

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But keep it legal.

No way. The government has no business telling me who to hire. It's my company, I will hire who I want.

None of my or the government's business.

The First Amendment allows kids to pray in school. That's fine by me. As along as it's not school sponsored or sanctioned prayer is fine.

I have no issue with the death penalty for some people.

Case by case.

Unconstitutional. And rightly so. Sexist.

Move to Cuba. Stay awhile. Come back. Re-think.

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Our higher education system in the world's best. Why wreck it?

Rolling blackouts anyone?

HAHAHAHAHA. I guess history really does provide no lessons. Pity.

Agreed.

So, now we are trying to make EVERYONE poor. Great plan. On top of that how in the world would track it? Plus, you will get nothing from me. Nothing. There are banks all over the world.

Interesting considering we are a nation of immigrants.

Then expect the same in return.

OK to first. Not second.

Fine.

That's not isolationist.

Why?

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By the way, when I wrote that I oppose school prayer I meant only that I oppose organized school prayer. I also wouldn't force religions to recognize gay marriages. My ideas might be crazy but I can't come up with anything better.

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I really don't get the gun control idea you pose. Can you explain why?

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I'm sorry if any part of my agenda offended anyone. I'll explain my idea about gun control. Men commit most crimes, and women are the victims of the worst crimes (rape and rape/murders), so I think that women should have unquestioned gun rights. Gun control laws have been used for racist purposes, so to prevent that from occurring again, I want to regulate white gun ownership more tightly than minority gun ownership.

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don't have guns.

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Keep tough laws for dealers of cocaine, heroin, LSD, and other more dangerous drugs.

Decriminalize use of all drugs.

Legalize marijuania and treat it much like cigarettes. tax heavily and force marijuania manufacturers to finance anti-drug campaigns.

I would support government handouts of heroin to addicts before I would support tougher bans on all drugs.

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Won't that just reverse the statistics?

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