Progressive Politics

Proportional voting on all levels of government. Fixes gerrymandering, electoral college, etc: your vote percentage matches your representatives proportionally.

Redundancy. Allow a board of state governments to prosecute US government actors for violations of law. A board of the five largest US states (by pop) and a rotating roster of the remaining states should be authorized to enforce any federal law in addition to the executive branch.

Balance of Powers. eliminate discretionary presidential pardon powers, force congress to approve all pardons and commutations and force them to do it in a separate vote from any bill or law.

Abandon the current supreme court model. The supreme court as it is should be dissolved and a lottery board of existing judges should serve as the supreme court when a constitutional question arises. The supreme court should be convened only when a lower court has a constitutional question and dissolved once it is answered.

Overturn citizens united and make bribery illegal. Ban political donations. Provide a lifetime pension for all congress members (to reduce the congress to lobbyist incentives and selling of secrets). Provide mandatory public funding for elections

Tax the rich to the point their wealth no longer creates corrupt incentives.

Media Reform. breakup the news and private media. Establish heavy tax on for profit media companies larger than a certain size. Create news libel laws where libel can be enforced against a media company or social media celebrity if a percent of followers/viewers are shown to believe something provably, factually untrue due to repeated editing decisions.

institute modern healthcare reforms. Each state. should be responsible for providing their residents healthcare at no extra cost.

Referendums on states and territories: Any US territory can become a state if they have a referendum that succeeds by 55% or more. Any US territory can become its own sovereign country with a referendum vote of 55% or more. Any land policed or controlled by the US government for more than 10 years should be considered a US territory.