I know this is a monumental task given the Washington bubble, but in my opinion the most efficient way to get them to publicly react to a Paid Family Leave proposal is by confronting them directly in mainstream media.
I love the idea of sending them letters, but I just don’t see a way to get them to actually care about that. It’d be too easy to ignore it.
I was just thinking that rather than letters or perhaps including letter, short 2-3 min.videos of families talking about their experience of not having family leave (show the outcome of what no access looks like).
On getting corporate money out of politics, lets build a movement for legislation that implements the following formulation
Basic electoral reforms:
Maybe the above need some tweaks, but these are 3 simple rules that can be easily communicated as fixes to rebalance the way money incentivises politicians.
Hey Cenk, what do you think of this idea. Recently, Matt Gaetz tweeted support for Ro Khanna’s anti-corruption reforms. I’m not allowed to link the tweet due to this community’s rules, but anyone here can look it up.
He says he will allow his fellow republicans to raise the threshold of supporters required in order to start a motion to vacate, “If we enact the reforms Ro Khanna lays out here…. How high would you like the MTV threshold to be?”
Right now, Matt Gaetz is making a big stink in the GOP and bragged about how he’s not beholden to lobbyists. Kind of BS of course since he somehow manages to do much of what they want without taking their money. Still, I wonder if there might be a way to harness his group of 8 who voted to oust McCarthy, his maga supporters, and enough democrats, to pass a clean bill banning lobbyist money or possibly Ro’s whole anti-corruption bill.
If we were to get the 8 ousters to be loud about it, they’re good at being loud and spreading the word. Additionally, if democrats actually asked Gaetz’s group of 8 to put their money with their mouth is, we either expose so-called right wing populists as liars or we actually do get their support in passing anti-corruption reform. Of course, it might be impossible for us to influence republicans, but perhaps Ro Khanna could since Matt Gaetz is already tweeting about his reform ideas!
If we get Gaetz’s group on our side, then we just need basically all of the democrats to pass Ro’s reforms…with both Gaetz and Khanna’s allies publically speaking in bipartisan unity to pass anti-corruption reforms…could the democrats be pressured to end the lobbyist money?
Lastly, I know more corporate democrats like Adam Schiff have introduced bills to repeal Citizen’s United. I figure Schiff did this because he knew it would go nowhere and he could put it on his record that’s he’s against the corruption and look good. But maybe that cynical act could be used against him and his fellow democrats now if Gaetz and Khanna team up on this issue. We’ve gotta fix the corruption. Let me know what you think! Or others can reply if Cenk is too busy lol.
I didn’t even check to see if anyone else had brought her up on here but I just posted topic about Rep Johnson. and being a former student at Miss Johnson’s. {im 29}
Oh of course employee owned is even better. It is 2023 and corporate expects 60hr weeks at 40hr a week pay, phone on/answered evenings, weekends, 4am etc. What we need is a 32 Hr work week and a reasonable workload. We need to slow our roll a bit more and smell the roses. Time is the commodity we can’t buy.
We need a capitalist workers strike. For all the non union employees who work in retail stores who are the unfortunate frontline to capitalism
I kind of like this. Star power. It gets publicity, it gets news coverage. Makes it hard to ignore.
I work for an employee owned Benefits Corporation. It’s better than most but still mediocre as far as caring for the workers. We’re starting an initiative to increase pto and add sick time to it, separate from pto. They sometimes take their cues from the local, nearby hospital, who is known for being toxic to their workers. My goal, and others, is to get them to SET the standard in the community, not follow the abusive monopolistic hospital standards.
I hear you. I live in a fairly “purple” district and town. The last presidential election, we had guys in trucks with shotguns patrolling the area, MAGA flags flying from the back. I had just finished voting and was walking my dog when one of the trucks past and the guy in the passenger side glaring at me the whole time. The only up side, the town is also full of very wealthy people and vacationers. (Not myself) They didn’t like rednecks running around with guns threatening their multimillion dollar lake homes. Police got on that fairly quickly. Next town over is ridiculously poor, not as much luck getting the guys with guns to stop.