A Parallel To Politics Platform.

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How do you begin something that has so many connective elements? Where does a complicated yet necessary conversation get started? What if we wanted to solve a policy matter you are most concerned about, yet also mine, and a thousand others? We all go to our a local politician, a state legislator, and congressperson, but if that has been done, is still being done, and must continually be done, will any of us change the political policy dynamic? Hopefully. Maybe. Probably not. This is a constant, often impossible dilemma to escape from.

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The dilemma is even more impossible when you consider every valid policy desired. Yes, I could be an exceptional advocate for my issue or issues, but it is likely only a few, out of many exceptional advocates, will break through the muddle. Also think of how many fade away just before their goal could have been accomplished. The poor, who are disconnected for many reasons, also get short shrift in the political sphere. The greatest ideas may fail to get through, something we realize after its time had come and gone, or only would have been known because a lucky happenstance occurred. Others may be thwarted for any number of reasons like the steam running out of the cause’s proponents.

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Politics is an important part of a society. However, today it is insufficient. While we may not be able to solve all the problems we think we can, there must be a way to cut through the muddle in 2021! There is also a need to work on things sooner rather than later, like climate change and inequality. Our incrementalism strategy has worn thin. Not because we should not take our time to do things right; it is due to not doing hardly anything at all, and going in reverse in too many cases.

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Both our social situation, and the climate, have suffered for more than four decades from bad policies, and no policies. Those problems create other problems, then new problems pop up that do not get addressed because we are so far behind on old problems. Even if liberals and progressives see more problems than there are, it is beside the point when the other side believes things are going so great, the wealthy need to overflow their pockets before the bottom 80 or 90% get anything. The billionaire tax cuts did…