Ideas
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Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | ||
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| + | == Civic Fundamentalism == | ||
| + | An attempt to expose right-wing wedge issues by coopting the term fundamentalism and providing a simple populist ideology by which they can be rejected. | ||
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| + | Organize as in the 10 commandments to provide an acceptable metaphor. | ||
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| + | Here are 10 or so very rough initial ideas. | ||
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| + | # MYOB, and let others mind theirs. However, do mind public business. | ||
| + | # Government policies should serve the common interest: directly, as insurer of last resort, and where the market fails. (This needs to be cleaned up.) | ||
| + | # Vote your family's pocketbook: not your politics, not your religion, not the latest propaganda. | ||
| + | # Continue to enlarge civil rights. | ||
| + | # Admit tradeoffs, seek compromise: polarizing issues are created by those who would defraud you. | ||
| + | # Honor your government and those who serve in it; yea even unto the taxman. | ||
| + | # Respect science, shun poseurs. | ||
| + | # Workers and families should be served before corporations or the wealthy. | ||
| + | # Beware of military adventurism and "just wars". | ||
| + | # Accept responsability. | ||
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| + | Conservatives may try to turn these around, but you could always compare those | ||
| + | efforts to stealing to honor your mother and father. | ||
== Online Calculator Proposal == | == Online Calculator Proposal == | ||
