Had some fun speculating this morning. My picks so far:

  • Instruct Surgeon General to reschedule marijuana. If he refuses, fire him and find someone who will.

  • Withdraw all US military presence on foreign soil. Military equipment is to be handed over to the host country, with the exception of relatively bad actors (e.g. Israel), in such case it is handed to their opposition. The influx of soldiers will be converted into a military engineer force to repair and develop infrastructure nationwide, including affordable housing and public transit.

  • Close Guantanamo bay, end the embargo on Cuba.

  • Withdraw from NATO, halt all NATO funding.

  • Halt all arms sales to foreign powers.

I'm keeping it to whatever I can do unilaterally, but go wild if you like. To (selectively) quote Flannery O'Connor, "You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much."

    • BoldTake [e/em/eir, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Some of the worst moderates like Pelosi would get purged. Any that tried to get in the way would also be dismissed from office.

      progressive liberals deserve a chance to review and amend their ideology. Most of them held the line this election cycle on abortion and trans rights, so there is at least something there. They would not be allowed to maintain institutional power.

      Conservative reactionaries in power have no redemptive value and are already ideologically committed to fascism. Fascists aren't people, they're tumors.

      Would also need at least some structure in place even temporally while a coherent vanguard was formed.