If you ask a question, you’ll get a ramble
I was asked by someone how I would I fix things, and I mentally responded no one will listen to human voices when the dollar sign is sucking all the air out of the room, but was too befuddled by the question to form a properly thought out answer - because why do I need to come up with the ideas? I have no power, no money, no pull, only a loud mouth and keyboard that my freshman high school typing instructor would be proud of because my fingers are pretty much in the correct typing position when clickity-clacking away.
However, since I know no one is reading this, here is an entirely incomplete list that I created – some of these are my ideas, some are ideas I’ve heard and agreed with, some are lessons I’ve learned from marginalized groups who have been fighting the man-made demons of this earth longer than I’ve been alive, and some are just my own stances on broad topics that align with the fix-it ideas.
- Trans women are women, trans men are men - if this one bothers you, the rest are just going to keep poking that bruise
- Demilitarize the police and reallocate funds to holistic community approaches that include social workers and medical professionals
- Decriminalize addiction and treat it like the medical issue it is
- Get our troops off foreign soil – it's a power move, no one believes we are the world's peacekeeper
- If we must have a full-time standing army, they can be put to domestic civic duties rather than hostile movements in other countries (currently sitting at over 750 US military bases in over 80 countries - why are we there if not to steal natural resources, protect oil fields for the oligarchs, and control the movements and lives of brown bodies in countries we are extorting)
- Get our government budget out of war-profiteering companies and weapons manufacturers
- Get the 401k system out of war-profiteering companies and weapons manufacturers
- Cut the military budget by 99%, and they'll still have almost 10 billion to work with annually
- Stop the religion over science movement in the laws being enacted - abortion bans, anti-LGBTQIA+ laws, book bans, etc, are all done under the guise of someone else’s religious preferences taking precedent over you as a living, breathing person
- Stop funding pseudo-science over science: ie- crisis pregnancy centers that aren't actual medical facilities but receive public dollars
- Tax the fucking churches
- Tax the fucking rich
- Universal healthcare
- Strengthen and fund the arts in schools
- Wage transparency from the bottom to the top – and no more white men wage inflation bullshit
- CEOs / heads of companies can only make X% more than their lowest earning employee – when the janitor is making $10 an hour and the C-suite is making millions, humanity is no longer the driving force, but profit, and dehumanizing the workforce has caused massive issues
- Fund grants for women's health and healthcare research
- Stop criminalizing identity politics like LGBTQIA+, abortions, and minorities merely to coddle the comfort of whiteness
- Shut down the prison industrial complex
- Shut down the for-profit prison system
- Land back all day every day
- Fuck colonialism
- Fuck imperialism
- Stop criminalizing community events that feed and help the unhoused
- Fix the unhoused problem in a humane and humanity centered way
- Stop tying religion to community aid – ie: having to attend a church service to received a hot meal, having to attend bible study to have safe place to lay your head, having to tithe to a church to receive job training, etc etc etc etc etc
- Fix the hunger problem
- Ensure citizens have safe, clean food and drinking water
- Shut down private equity businesses and all similarly adjacent predatory practices
- Overturn Citizens v United
- Stop starting proxy wars for natural resources
- Stop flexing the imperialist fist that has the world in a choke hold
- Admit the climate crisis is real and must be addressed immediately
- Universal basic income
- Get those goddamn lobbiests out of politics
- Ban generative AI – it’s killing the arts, killing the planet, taking all the water, exacerbating the climate crises exponentially, and is well on its way to voiding any form of due process that we naively think still exists
- FREE PALESTINE
- FREE CONGO
- FREE SUDAN
- Male led religious wars have killed more souls than any other form of violence that man has created to inflict on itself
- Fuck the patriarchy
- Fuck capitalism
- Abolish ICE
- ACAB – police do not stop violence or solve crime – they protect the private property of the oligarchs, politicians, and corporations