As a member of No Labels, we value your input and want to get your thoughts on the policy brief we just released in partnership with Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. Beyond Redistricting and Campaign Finance: Six Bold Ideas to Rebuild our Democracy introduces six reform ideas that aim to fix our broken political system. These ideas include: 1. Create a New Political Infrastructure for Pragmatic Candidates Make it available to Republicans or Democrats willing to work across party lines and break the iron grip that party leaders and extreme interest groups now hold on rank-and-file members. 2. Allow Strategic Targeted Spending Often derided as “earmarks,” this is actually a critical part of the give and take required to strike bipartisan deals. 3. Term Limit Supreme Court Justices Why should a president, who serves eight years at the most, have the power to shape the Supreme Court and therefore the country for 30 years or more? 4. A 21st Century Fairness Doctrine Holding a federal broadcast license is a privilege and a public trust. The government — which essentially means the American people — should demand a modicum of honesty, transparency, and fairness in return. 5. Demand Great Accountability from Campaign Consultants Media and campaign consultants form a political-industrial complex with incentives to push political dialogue and advertising toward the extremes. It’s time to demand some transparency and accountability. 6. Truth in Social Media It may be time to reconsider the total legal immunity tech companies get for illegal, fake or hateful content that appears on their platforms. All of these ideas have the potential to help repair our democracy but, we want to know which is most important to you. Would you take a moment to complete this survey and indicate which ideas you think No Labels should prioritize and educate people in the weeks and months ahead? Let us know what you think! |