I thought the second night of Democratic debates in Detroit was pretty great. We are lucky to have so many good people with great ideas running for this nomination. IMO all of them with a few exceptions would be great as president. But it will only end up being one person nominated. Whoever ends up being the democratic nominee deserves our full support and the full support of all of the other candidates as well. And, if the nominee would be open to using the best ideas from all of these candidates we would have a master plan for government that would really turn things around and truly deliver on the greatness that this country could achieve. If we could combine all of the best ideas together to come up with a grand game plan for change and renewal in America this is what I would draw from last night’s exchange:
But first, on a different note I bring up an issue that is not being addressed by some of the candidates. All of the candidates who want to work with the ACA to make it better and make it work are not addressing one important issue. The Supreme Court ruled against making people pay the individual mandate since the law was changed to not enforce it after all. Isn’t the individual mandate absolutely essential to pay for the ACA? If people do not pay into the individual mandate, how is the program going to be paid for? The candidates who are against Medicare for All and want to make the ACA better, (Biden and Bennet), are not addressing how they would pay for it if the individual mandate essentially no longer exists. How are they going to make a program that cannot pay for itself better and work?
Julian’s plan for comprehensive immigration policy, I think, is the best plan for that issue.
Jay Inslee’s plan for combatting climate change is the best plan to try to save the planet.
Tulsi’s desire to get us out of regime change wars and redirect all of that money into programs here at home to improve the quality of life for all Americans is necessary.
Cory’s ideas for racial healing are probably the most astute and would yield the best results.
Kamala would restore the Department of Justice back to a Department of Justice that functions, is fair, plays by the rules established in the Constitution, and once again observes and stands for law and order.
Bill DeBlasio hits the nail on the head about taxes and social justice. He and Elizabeth Warren have the best ideas on taxation and if we could combine their ideas we would have a winning economic plan.
Julian’s speech near the end of the debate got loud applause that almost interfered with what he was saying about the need for impeachment proceedings against Trump to begin immediately. After he said that they should begin immediately and the applause started, he went on to more importantly say words to the effect that “forget about all the political calculations and get impeachment proceedings going. If we don’t do so Trump will be able to say “They didn’t impeach me because I did nothing wrong.” And if the Democrats in the House do bring articles of impeachment to the Senate, we know Trump will be acquitted in the Senate and then we can say we Moscow Mitch did it. But this comment was kind of drowned out by applause and cheering that would have been even louder if they had just waited a few seconds for the rest of the message.
What I would combine with these ideas from last nights’ debate from the previous night would be Mayor Buttigeig’s youth and innovative ideas and his plan to bring back diplomacy in a major way.
Elizabeth Warren’s ideas on economic issues are the most comprehensive. Her ideas on combatting corruption, draining the swamp and prevent it from being re-infested, and rebuilding the middle class while regulating Wall Street are all not just good solid policy positions but essentially to taking back the government for the people and ending the dominance of oligarchy that currently has a strangle hold on our governance.
Bernie’s ideas about inclusion of labor rights and organizations, the minimum wage, college tuition, forgiving college debt, and Medicare for All would go a long way to closing the income inequality that is impoverishing more and more citizens in our country every day and eroding the middle class.
We are very lucky that these people are presenting these powerfully restorative policy ideas and positions. I think any one of these candidates would be great as president. Whoever is the nominee will deserve all of our support. And, hopefully that person will not insist on using his or her own ideas if they are not the best, most effective plans possible but will drawn the best ideas from all of these candidates.
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