Post by davidsf on Nov 5, 2021 6:06:55 GMT -8
Bick brought up the Justice Democrats in another thread: They've been around a few years so maybe it's time we bring them out of the shadows with their own thread.
JUSTICE DEMOCRATS
While they have not been very successful since their founding in 2016, they DID manage to get a handful of U.S. Representatives elected in 2018:
However, in the 2020 elections, they kind of exploded getting 10 Representatives elected to the House.
According to Wikipedia, linked above, they sound altruistic enough:
However, they don't stop there. Their manifesto, of sorts, was written bye their founders to include (see if any of this sounds familiar):
So they're not just about electing officials... they're more about getting officials elected who will support their legislative goals.
JUSTICE DEMOCRATS
While they have not been very successful since their founding in 2016, they DID manage to get a handful of U.S. Representatives elected in 2018:
- Incumbent Raúl Grijalva (AZ)
- Incumbent Ro Khanna (CA)
- Incumbent Pramila Jayapal (WA)
and...
- Ayanna Pressley
- Rashida Tlaib
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
However, in the 2020 elections, they kind of exploded getting 10 Representatives elected to the House.
According to Wikipedia, linked above, they sound altruistic enough:
its highest priority is to effectively eliminate the role of money and conflicts of interests in politics. As such, any candidate running with Justice Democrats must pledge to refuse donations from corporate PACs and lobbyists
*Creating a new infrastructure program called the "Green New Deal"
*Ending arms sales to countries that it says violate human rights such as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt
*Enacting a federal job guarantee, which would promise all Americans a job paying $15 per hour plus benefits
*Ending the death penalty
*Ending the practice of unilaterally waging war, except as a last resort to defend U.S. territory
*Ending the War on Drugs in favor of legalization, regulation, and taxation of drugs, and pardoning all non-violent drug offenders and treating all drug addicts
*Ensuring free speech on college campuses and supporting net neutrality
*Ensuring universal education as a right, including free four-year public college and university education
*Ensuring universal healthcare as a right
*Establishing paid maternity leave, paid vacation leave, and free childcare
*Expanding anti-discrimination laws to apply to LGBT people
*Expanding background checks on firearms and banning high capacity magazines and assault weapons
*Funding Planned Parenthood and other contraceptive and abortion services, and recognizing reproductive rights
*Implementing electoral reform and publicly financed elections nationwide to make irrelevant and obsolete fundraising from large corporations and the wealthy
*Implementing instant-runoff voting nationwide in an effort to make third-party and independent candidates more viable
*Implementing the Buffett Rule, ending offshore financial centers, "chain[ing]" the capital gains and income taxes, and increasing the estate tax
*Making the minimum wage a living wage and tying it to inflation
*Pardoning Edward Snowden, prosecuting CIA torturers and DoD war criminals, shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and all other extrajudicial prisons, and ending warrantless spying and bulk data collection by the National Security Agency
*Passing the Paycheck Fairness Act
*Abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)
*Reforming police by mandating body cameras, establishing community oversight boards, eliminating broken windows policing, ending stop and frisk, and appointing special prosecutors to hold police accountable in courts
*Renegotiating CAFTA-DR and NAFTA, and opposing Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China and the World Trade Organization
*Stopping any reductions to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and establishing single-payer universal healthcare
*Stopping anthropogenic climate change through an ecological revolution and upholding the United States' participation in the Paris Climate Agreement
*Uncompromisingly rejecting President Trump's immigration proposals and policies, particularly Executive Order 13769 and deportation of illegal immigrants, and implementing comprehensive immigration reform which will include giving non-criminal illegal immigrants a path to citizenship
*Ending arms sales to countries that it says violate human rights such as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt
*Enacting a federal job guarantee, which would promise all Americans a job paying $15 per hour plus benefits
*Ending the death penalty
*Ending the practice of unilaterally waging war, except as a last resort to defend U.S. territory
*Ending the War on Drugs in favor of legalization, regulation, and taxation of drugs, and pardoning all non-violent drug offenders and treating all drug addicts
*Ensuring free speech on college campuses and supporting net neutrality
*Ensuring universal education as a right, including free four-year public college and university education
*Ensuring universal healthcare as a right
*Establishing paid maternity leave, paid vacation leave, and free childcare
*Expanding anti-discrimination laws to apply to LGBT people
*Expanding background checks on firearms and banning high capacity magazines and assault weapons
*Funding Planned Parenthood and other contraceptive and abortion services, and recognizing reproductive rights
*Implementing electoral reform and publicly financed elections nationwide to make irrelevant and obsolete fundraising from large corporations and the wealthy
*Implementing instant-runoff voting nationwide in an effort to make third-party and independent candidates more viable
*Implementing the Buffett Rule, ending offshore financial centers, "chain[ing]" the capital gains and income taxes, and increasing the estate tax
*Making the minimum wage a living wage and tying it to inflation
*Pardoning Edward Snowden, prosecuting CIA torturers and DoD war criminals, shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and all other extrajudicial prisons, and ending warrantless spying and bulk data collection by the National Security Agency
*Passing the Paycheck Fairness Act
*Abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)
*Reforming police by mandating body cameras, establishing community oversight boards, eliminating broken windows policing, ending stop and frisk, and appointing special prosecutors to hold police accountable in courts
*Renegotiating CAFTA-DR and NAFTA, and opposing Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China and the World Trade Organization
*Stopping any reductions to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and establishing single-payer universal healthcare
*Stopping anthropogenic climate change through an ecological revolution and upholding the United States' participation in the Paris Climate Agreement
*Uncompromisingly rejecting President Trump's immigration proposals and policies, particularly Executive Order 13769 and deportation of illegal immigrants, and implementing comprehensive immigration reform which will include giving non-criminal illegal immigrants a path to citizenship
So they're not just about electing officials... they're more about getting officials elected who will support their legislative goals.
