The DemocraticUnderground can say things the Democratic Party cannot say.

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459. It's only hard because the tent is too big

and porous.

I'd be happy to start with the California Democratic Party platform:

• Promote peace, rule of law, and human rights by instituting and funding time-tested and cost effective tools and strategies for peace, which address the hate, vitriol and violence that are rampant in today's society, which interfere with our security and prosperity, both at home and abroad.
• Seek the safe withdrawal of U.S. troops from all foreign engagements and the full reintegration of veterans and our tax dollars into civilian life;
• Create a 21st century economy built on a diverse workforce educated in quality public schools by teachers enjoying the right to organize;
• Respect the civil rights and liberties of all American citizens, including rights to freedom of expression and assembly, as well as the inherent dignity of the person and the equal and inalienable human rights of all peoples;
• Ensure universal, comprehensive, and affordable health care for all Californians, preferably through a single- payer plan;
• Protect a woman’s right to choose how to use her mind, her body and her time;
• Secure a dignified retirement for our seniors, protecting Social Security and Medicare now and for future
generations;
• Promote energy self-sufficiency, building renewable energy industries to counter global warming and
pollution, and protect our natural resources;
• Build smart, sustainable, safe, equitable, environmentally sound, aesthetically pleasing, and caring
communities;
• Insist upon fiscal common sense, responsibility, and accountability in California and Washington, through
restoration of appropriate regulation and elimination of corporate personhood;
• Seek abolition of the death penalty through conversion of all death sentences to terms of permanent
incarceration and reform aspects of the penal system that have contributed to prison overcrowding and
abuse of prisoners;
• Promote a reasonable path to citizenship for immigrants and demand respect for the human rights of all
residents;
• Withdraw the profit motive from healthcare delivery, imprisonment, and war;
• Restore our fundamental civil liberties by reversing the evisceration of the Magna Carta, which created the
right of habeas corpus in 1215 AD; oppose the assassination of U.S. citizens and any policies that grant to a government the unrestrained power to arrest, detain, transfer, or interrogate U.S. citizens without charge or trial;
• Promote the restoration of a fair and equitable system of taxation.

I'd add some gun control regs too.