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- Civil rights, beginning with the obvious and (what should be) inalienable: racial equality and gender equality
- Political equality, including ending efforts to curtail voting rights and ending voter disenfranchisement, which disproportionately affects minorities, and substantially limiting the influence of money in politics to get closer to the heart of democracy: 1 person = 1 equal vote
- Real economic opportunity, or rather diminished economic inequality and improved health and educational inequalities, in addition to political inequalities, that all become compounding and reinforcing elements of economic inequality, which has reached nearly unprecedented levels
- Health equity, namely a functional – not parsimonious, fraught with political efforts to sabotage – universal health care system and other measures to minimize and ultimately end the socioeconomic and racial disparities in health access and life expectancy
- Education, especially early education opportunities (e.g. publicly financed pre-school) and increased investments in public education generally so that we are committing in earnest in our children and future, and so that private wealth doesn’t buy educational attainment, further entrenching inequities across the board
- Pragmatism and bipartisanship, bringing reason, the median voter, collaboration, and appropriate levels of compromise back into the political arena to find pragmatic solutions to the myriad problems before us
- Political reform, namely campaign finance reform, e.g. reinterpreting the constitution to effectively end Citizens United and expanding public campaign financing; addressing gerrymandering; and doing away with the electoral college
- Environmental stewardship, beginning with a fundamental reframing of how we interact with the environment, to finding ways for everyone to recognize – across red and blue – the realities of finite resources, interconnectivity and ecosystems, as well as climate change so that we as a society – national and global – commit to progressive policies and lifestyle changes