honestly left leaning places should do this more. the right does it when they make cruel laws to torture dissidents - all the left needs to do is trigger them and get them to leave.
maybe require identification on social media (dislike but rightwing trolls get hurt more) ,
ban vehicles over a certain size on class c licenses (like 4k lbs, intentionally low enough to ban big pickup trucks),
ban private schools and fund schools from state taxes entirely instead of city for equity,
require highschoolers to take classes on psychology and parenting,
make sex ed mandatory and lgbt inclusive,
build up light rail and ban cars in cities except for delivery purposes,
require garbage to be sorted and actually fine people,
massively shorten prison sentences and focus on re education to end “prison culture”,
tax incentivize continual adult education,
document undocumented immigrants
pay black people reparations
ensure access to abortions and contraceptives to everyone, including minors
legally mandate vaccines
institute a maximum wage,
institute election spending maximums,
ban landlords, the local govt takes ownership of rental properties and contracts property managers or something
Social media ID cuts both ways. Fascists would be the ones willing to use it to fuck people.
Require garbage to be sorted and actually fine people.
There was a guy in DC that got roasted, fined an entire apartment building because he found a single can in the trash stream. I like the idea, but there’s a lot of power in that inspector postion.
massively shorten prison sentences and focus on re education to end “prison culture”,
I like it, we also need to super prop up the people that get out. Strong programs to keep them employed and fed and a support net to keep them from dropping back through the cracks. Most would be willing to work and become productive but the system is designed to reclaim them.
build up light rail and ban cars in cities except for delivery purposes,
That’s fine if you never want to leave the city. A cheap driveshare program dedicated to city users with easy access from the subway would probably be needed. Also the subway is somewhat more unreliable than I’d like to see that pass.
ban landlords, the local govt takes ownership of rental properties and contracts property managers or something
That’s another hard one. If the local government owns it, if the right gets in again, they could just destroy the poor. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have some working social systems, but building a utopia probably can’t start in the middle of NYC. We’d need to go disney style and put in something semi rural as a testing ground.
Youre takes are valid from a good governance perspective - dont grant power you dont want used against you.
This isnt necessarily about good governance though, its “we have the power, now lets govern such that conservatives that have lived here for decades hate it so much they sell their property and leave”.
honestly left leaning places should do this more. the right does it when they make cruel laws to torture dissidents - all the left needs to do is trigger them and get them to leave.
idk what else?
Social media ID cuts both ways. Fascists would be the ones willing to use it to fuck people.
There was a guy in DC that got roasted, fined an entire apartment building because he found a single can in the trash stream. I like the idea, but there’s a lot of power in that inspector postion.
I like it, we also need to super prop up the people that get out. Strong programs to keep them employed and fed and a support net to keep them from dropping back through the cracks. Most would be willing to work and become productive but the system is designed to reclaim them.
That’s fine if you never want to leave the city. A cheap driveshare program dedicated to city users with easy access from the subway would probably be needed. Also the subway is somewhat more unreliable than I’d like to see that pass.
That’s another hard one. If the local government owns it, if the right gets in again, they could just destroy the poor. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have some working social systems, but building a utopia probably can’t start in the middle of NYC. We’d need to go disney style and put in something semi rural as a testing ground.
Youre takes are valid from a good governance perspective - dont grant power you dont want used against you.
This isnt necessarily about good governance though, its “we have the power, now lets govern such that conservatives that have lived here for decades hate it so much they sell their property and leave”.
I wouldn’t feel bad if that happened but it kind of feels like that’s what they’re trying to do to us and it’s not really working.