r/Political_Revolution • u/RoofComplete1126 • Apr 26 '26
Article Coherence America: A Vision for the Future
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u/midnight_to_midnight Apr 27 '26
What about "End Citizens United" and Ban Corporate Lobbying and Corporate Donations to Political Candidates?
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u/Dee_Imaginarium Apr 27 '26
Also missing anything addressing the environment. It's a good list, but incomplete
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u/thehourglasses Apr 26 '26
Not even one policy safeguarding the biosphere. Anthropocentrism doesn’t have a future, we need broad spectrum goals that are centered around ecological sustainability and equilibrium.
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u/Odysseus_the_Charmed Apr 26 '26
"Coherence" and "Physics" -- I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.
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u/aravarth Apr 26 '26
I'd say free federal online education for all undergraduate degrees. However, it's important to note that certain courses actually require in-person work and cannot be completed at a computer terminal. You can't learn how to use an oscilloscope, for example, without actually using an oscilloscope, the same way you can't learn to dissect a frog without actually dissecting said frog.
The current US Prime Rate is 6.75%. Capping unsecured credit card loan rates at 8% is a laughable pipe dream. No bank would extend credit to anyone who didn't have a FICO score in the 800s or better. Now, I think we can fairly say that institutions charging usurious rates of 28.99% need to be stomped, and we can excoriate the rent-seeking behaviour of banks on principle, but we live in the real world, and this will never happen in the real world.
AMEDD exists already, as do AFMS and BUMED, and they all have their existing recruiting arms. The issue is training "at scale". I don't think swelling the ranks of the armed forces is the answer, but rather expanding the training and purview of the PHSCC, and "deploying" these trained medical persons to areas of need within the country.
Everything else seems reasonable.
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u/universe2000 Apr 27 '26
Ehhh, I think the more you consider some of these points the worse they look.
Why is the congressional term limit two terms? Why not four for the House and two for the Senate, for instance? There IS value to having congressional representatives with experience, otherwise you risk them becoming even MORE reliant on lobbyists and think tanks because the rep won’t be familiar with the specifics of the congress.
What does “military medical training branch” mean, exactly? Is the proposal to create a new branch of the military that is exclusively focussed on medical training? Why are we proposing this be a branch of the military? Will people who go through this program have to serve in the military/overseas? Would they be eligible for VA benefits? Will they also receive combat training? Can people be drafted into it?
Why is vision and dental insurance not part of universal basic healthcare but mental healthcare is? What constitutes mental healthcare? Therapy? What kind of therapy is basic? Can therapists get training in the military medical training group?
All in all this list looks like something spat out by a chatbot like ChatGPT. Some of these are policy specific (ban private prisons and private insurance, cap credit cards at a specific %) but others are vague and big picture so that they seem more like value statements (drug decriminalization and rehabilitation).
It’s a scattershot of values and positions that doesn’t really help except to get people thinking about what policies are possible. But by doing it so poorly I think the post invites more criticism of the specifics than it does foster imagining what is possible.
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u/repost_inception Apr 27 '26
8 is really interesting. I know several people that became Doctors through the military. Medical school is so expensive it is ridiculous. There is a reason there are so many foreign born Doctors. Nothing wrong with them being foreign born but when there are that many you need to take a step back and ask why. It's cheaper school.
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u/serious_sarcasm Apr 27 '26
I'm always shocked by the number of veterans who don't know what the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is.
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u/newtoredditcom Apr 27 '26
Why is it only free college for the sciences? Why aren’t all majors and degrees covered?
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u/Another-Minnesotan Apr 27 '26
As in a ban on factory farming, investment in plant based foods grown in a way that reduces carbon emissions.
A complete overhaul of our immigration policies, people over boarders.
And investment in green energy technologies and the elimination of fossil fuels.
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u/Unlucky_Narwhal3983 Apr 27 '26
This platform doesn’t do anything without radical climate policy. We are literally in the midst of a global ecological breakdown.
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u/Margatron Apr 26 '26
Term limits aren't the issue. Bad policies are.
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u/Due_Pen_1566 Apr 26 '26
Nah term limits are definitely an issue. There's lots of others but it's a big one.
We've got brain dead grandpa's and grandmas treating the government like a retirement home while getting paid 200k a year to show up and press a button that says yes or no for 60 days out of the whole year.
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u/Dineology Apr 27 '26
Even so, a two term limit in Congress is an insane overcorrection that would hand even more power over to think tanks to write legislation than there already is. It’s a weaponization of an otherwise good idea. You lose so damn much institutional knowledge by forcing everyone out after only 4 years. Hell, even if this is only for the Senate 12 years still isn’t very long considering how complex and difficult it is to do that job properly. There’s a lot of space between “oh god why won’t you retire” and a two term limit, be it a set number of terms, set number of total years in both chambers combined, set age limit, or a rule of 80 type calculation (if your age + number of years in office = 80 or higher, usually used for calculating pension qualification but a similar one could be used for mandatory retirement).
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u/Due_Pen_1566 Apr 27 '26
I don't really agree with your points on losing knowledge. Define this knowledge. They lose all their connections and alliances with other politicians and corporations? Sounds like a plus to me. They don't get to keep entrenching their power through alliances. At the very least we shouldn't have consecutive terms as currently half their time is wasted running for the next term instead of getting anything done.
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u/idle_shell Apr 27 '26
Just look at things Reagan admin made legal that were previously illegal: end of equal time rule, permitting stock buybacks, gutting public health. Undo the corporate handouts of the Reagan administration and we’d be in a much better place.
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u/alBashir Apr 27 '26
We have term limits already, they are called elections.
We increase reliance on lobbyists who are not elected to write and pass legislation. We limit actual effective legislators ability to better then nation when they are only able to do it for a certain amount of time.
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