Let's get major reforms going ...
Let’s win 2020 and invest in our future.
Let’s win 2020 and deliver lasting change & impact to our nation.
Let’s flip GOP’s power grab into the last gasp of a forever minority group.
I know that no one is surprised by GOP’s power play and I am reasonably confident that Mitch McConnell & his cronies will seat a Supreme Court justice before Election day, no matter, what the cost is.
I think Democratic Party has to think big and DELIVER BIGGER.
1. Let’s expand statehood to EVERY US Citizen.
I think no citizen should be without a state. US should throw off the last vestiges of colonialism and ensure that every citizen has a state to call his own.
1. Puerto Rico is a no-brainer. Given the proximity of US Virgin Islands, the same should be clubbed with Puerto Rico.
2. Washington DC is yet another no-brainer. Let’s name the state as the Roosovelt state. What better way than to honor the President who led us through a successful battle against Facism.
3. Get California to agree to a split into 2 states. The 2 states can be called North & South California. That’s a good way to neutralize the power loss. At 20M citizens each, these 2 states will in the top 5 / top 10 of US states by population as well.
4. Create state of Pacific Islands by bring Northern Mariana Islands, Samoa, Guam together into 1 state. Together, they will have 270K citizens. Half of Wyoming.
At 54 states and 108 senators, it should put Republicans in minority for a long time.
2. Expand Supreme Court
There is a good reason to have 13 seats on Supreme Court. 11 District courts, Fed Court & DC district courts gives a good rationale on why we need 13 seats.
I am happy to be magnanimous and give 1 seat to the GOP party. Too bad they already used it on Neil Gorsuch.
Put Merrick Garland on Supreme Court. Rather than a concept or nameless person, people can associate with an idea of giving him justice.
3. Mandatory Constitutional Convention
Pass a law that mandates constitutional convention every 20 years. Congress should be mandated to pass an up/down vote on EVERY single constitutional convention output. All remaining benchmarks remain. Not sure if we can do the same to every state but that will be nice too.
With the growing grassroots movement, good ideas will exit the convention with grassroot support & momentum forcing states to consider keeping the constitution updated to the current century than leaving it in the 18th century.
The country needs the Democratic party to either rise up or be replaced by a better & competent political party that’s aligned to the progressive movement that powers the party.
