The Project to Rebuild the American Dream is a prime example of democratic media used to "Crowd-Source" ideas and develop a consensus. Catalyzed by Van Jones, the Green Jobs Guru who was fired by the Obama Administration for speaking out, the new
MoveOn.org campaign to reinvent the American Dream is designed as a 'contract' (i.e. Social Contract, mirroring the replublican '
Contract on America' of the 1990's). This contract has been limited to the ten most popular ideas crowd-sourced from a few hundred-thousand members.
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- 1. Invest in America’s Infrastructure.
- 2. Create 21st-Century Energy Jobs.
- 3. Invest in Public Education.
- 4. Offer Medicare for All.
- 5. Make Work Pay.
- 6. Secure Social Security.
- 7. Return to Fairer Tax Rates.
- 8. Tax Wall Street Speculation.
- 9. End the Wars and Invest at Home.
- 10. Restore Our Democracy.
We need clean, fair elections - where no one's right to vote can be taken away, and where money doesn’t buy you your own member of Congress. We must ban anonymous political influence, slam shut the lobbyists’ revolving door in D.C. and publicly finance elections. Immigrants who want to join in our democracy deserve a clear path to citizenship. And we must stop giving corporations the rights of people when it comes to our elections and ensure our Judiciary’s respect for the Constitution. Together, we will reclaim our democracy to get our country back on track.
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