The Progressive Bull Moose Party Platform
This is a draft of the Progressive Bull Moose Party Principles and Platform. If we can achieve even one third of these ideas it will go a LONG sea mile toward giving power back to the American people. If anything on here stands out to you as being particularly important or something you disagree with, please say so. (Please join the conversation: https://www.facebook.com/BullMooseProgressiveParty)
Election Reform
- Abolish Corporate Personhood.
- Repeal Citizens United and the McCutcheon Rulings.
- Kill Super PACs & End Big Money in Politics.
- Reform Campaign Finance Laws.
- Allow Open Primaries, with Top Three Advancing to General Election.
- End Partisan Gerrymandering–Establish Non-Partisan Redistricting Commissions
- Establish Direct Election of SCOTUS
- Create a “None of the Above” Option in All Federal Elections
Wall Street and Corporate Reform
- End “Too Big to Fail”—Bust ‘em Apart. Resurrect Glass-Steagall.
- Eliminate Corporate Welfare—Including Tax Breaks, Subsidies & Loopholes.
- Tame Rampant Income Inequality—Including Establishing Equal Pay for Women, a Living Wage & Increased Taxes on the Billionaires & 0.01%. Strengthen Social Security (Remove the Ceiling).
- Cap the Size of Corporations. End Hostile, Unproductive Takeovers & Leveraged Buyouts; Stop Mergers that Undermine Competition.
Smaller, More Responsive Government
- Establish Term Limits—Including Lobbyists, Congressional Staffers, Agency “Lifers,” and the Chief Justice.
- Rein in Spending. Balance the Budget. Payoff the Debt.
- Rein in Corporate Lobbying.
- Halt Domestic Spying Without a Warrant. Abolish Secret Courts.
- Establish a National Referendum Over Extended Military Action.
Direct election of SCOTUS frightens me. The average American doesn’t have the brains to vote in widely publicized presidential elections, let alone vote for Supreme Court justices about whom they know nothing. The power the SCOTUS has is too important to hand over every few years to someone voted in because he/she was first on the ballot.
Scotus to be determined through blind vote of law professors and history professors tenured in their professions and by the ABA.
Idea: No Former CIA and FBI Agents, Known assets,nor Directors can run for Presidential Office. An elected or appointed official who has set in on legislation pertaining to a corporation its subsidaries can’t accept a job later down the road with same entity or ever receive or own stock in said company or its subsidiaries.
*cant accept job