Ten-Plank, Pipe-Dream Democratic Agenda. Would you support it?

[TheJollyNihilist]

Poll question: Ten-Plank, Pipe-Dream Democratic Agenda. Would you support it?

I posted this agenda on my own blog for public consideration, and figured I'd share it here. This is an ideal-world scenario (i.e., no Bush to muck it up). Would you support these 10 culturally liberal planks?

1. Only approve judges who recognize a personal, unrestricted right to abortion, as well as a personal right to die. By holding those positions, these judges will have demonstrated respect for the crucial principle of bodily sovereignty.

2. Move forward in recognizing gay marriage at the federal level. Civil unions are not an acceptable alternative; separate but equal is a farce because separate inherently means unequal. Only outright gay marriage will do.

3. Eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, and eliminate “harsh interrogation techniques” employed against suspected enemies of the state. Torture is not tolerable, ever.

4. Eliminate laws regarding personal, adult drug use.

5. Eliminate laws regarding personal, adult, consensual sexual activity.

6. Eliminate the FCC’s ability to regulate for “indecency” and “obscenity,” as those concepts merely are a matter of personal taste.

7. Leave Iraq tomorrow.

8. Eliminate any connection between Church and State. Worship centers should pay taxes just like every other institution. Worship centers should not receive any federal funding under any circumstances, including school supplies for parochial schools.

9. Abolish the warrant-less domestic surveillance program, and reconsider the Patriot Act in the light of protecting civil liberties.

10. Expand federal funding of stem cell research, and fund human cloning research, as well.


I think I'm probably a bigger cultural liberal than anybody in Congress at present.

[JeffR]

1. Impressive list

Good poll!

[TheJollyNihilist]

2. Thanks.

Thanks.

Next to me, I think Teddy Kennedy looks like a cultural moderate!

[JeffR]

6. Welcome to DU, BTW

You'll find the debates between the radicals and the moderates, um, intriguing.:)

[TheJollyNihilist]

9. I wonder where I fit...

I wonder where I will fit in that dichotomy...

I'm ridiculously liberal on cultural issues, moderate on economics and an isolationist on foreign/military policy.

[JeffR]

10. You'll find lots of company, is my guess

[TheJollyNihilist]

12. Cool.

Cool.

I'm not really a conservative or a liberal, but more a left-leaning libertarian.

The Republican Party has turned so completely against libertarian philosophy that I've become a committed Democrat, just in the hopes of averting the GOP's authoritarian, big-government agenda.

The GOP really has become the party of nosy meddlers who "know better than you do."

[demigoddess]

3. I would support all but no 3. Death penalty roll backs okay but not

outright getting rid of. A few crimes deserve death penalty. Rape and murder of child is one. Rape murder and torture of adult is another. Crimes against humanity. Also get all those drug users out of prison and we would have room for lifers.

[jonnywishbone97]

5. I support the death penalty

for murderers and peds. Foley I hope you read this.

[TheJollyNihilist]

8. Erroneous convictions?

As long as an erroneous conviction is even conceivable, I will oppose the death penalty in all cases. Yes, that even includes Hitler, Saddam, Osama, etc. One innocent being executed would be too much.

[MrFrankZito]

11. Good point.

Good point.

The whole analogy about having to "break some eggs" in order to make an omelet doesn't really work too well when you're talking about the government erroneously executing somebody with our tax dollars.

[More Than A Feeling]

4. I have problems with #4 and #8

I only support decriminalization of marijuana. Let's see how that works first before we try decriminalization of the harder stuff.

As for #8, I think forcing churches that stay out of politics to pay taxes is a violation of the separation of church and state. Otherwise, government would get the ability to regulate churches too, and churches would get the right to fully participate in politics. Neither is a good thing.

[JeffR]

7. Good point about #8

Well put.