Trump is gone. The only thing left is for us to watch about 3 months of temper tantrums as Trump struggles to overturn a democratic process while complaining about how unfairly he’s been treated.

Here is what I want to see happen under Biden in no particular order:

1. Rejoin the Paris accord.
2. Overturn all of the environmental protections that Trump overturned.
3. Staff his cabinet with Republicans and Democrats. I like Warren for Sec. of Treasury. I think Budajudge needs to be in their someplace. I think the Attorney General should be from an opposing party. Obama would be a great Secretary of State…or maybe put his wife there.
4. Fix the tax code. This means repealing a code that benefited me; the one recently passed by Republicans. Tax businesses and the wealthy in accordance with dominant Economic thought…not with “how can I benefit my donors?”
5. Get money out of politics. So long as this does not happen…Trump will happen again.
6. Fix the rapidly expanding gap of income inequality. We benefit when we don’t leave people behind.
7. Fix college debt. I have only seen one plan for this that I like – one where you can pay off $10K a year by doing volunteer work.
8. Drop all of Trump’s tariffs. Tariffs have a role but Trump’s imposition of them was childish and worse than ineffective. They actually hurt our economy.
9. Racism off all kinds needs to be confronted…without rest. Hate against color, against religious beliefs, against country of origin, against political affiliation – there should be no room for this kind of hate in a modern society.
10. Restore belief in science. Fix the CDC for example. Climate change needs to be understood as something real. Economics is not just doing what you want without consequences.
11. The State Department has been decimated. We’ve lost experienced people but more importantly, we have lost global respect.
12. Call out and put an end to the birthing places of destructive thought. Fox news should not be allowed to call themselves news. Qanon, militias etc, all need to be dug out of their holes and discarded. We have aircraft carriers to fight other military enemies. We need to go after these misinformation sites with the same level of effort.
13. Invest in infrastructure. Yes, the debt is huge but, borrowing money right now is really, really cheap and we need a way to get people back to work. Don’t just sent them checks. Send checks to people that take a job to rebuild.
14. Fix healthcare. I don’t know how to do that but…we have several other countries that have figured it out so let’s ask them some questions.
15. Get rid of Gerrymandering
16. Get rid of the Electoral College
17. Rethink “2 senators per state.” For example, South Dakota has 2 senators which is about 1 senator per 450,000 people. In California, we have 1 senator per 20,000,000 people.
18. Our “balance of power” does not seem to work. A corrupt president can be controlled by Congress and the Supreme Court…unless…Congress is led by sheep like Mitch McConnel or if the Supreme Court is packed with partisan judges.

Now, every time I post one of these lists…I immediately think of things that I left out…But…this is what I have so far.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim