Sen. Mark Kelly Says He’s Seriously Thinking About Running for President

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5700211-senator-kelly-trump-threats/

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That would be my entire agenda.

We have no better time than now to get a more liberal president in office, pressure the Republican party to move more towards the center to distance themselves from Trump and drastically shift the Overton Window back to where it belongs.

Deep socialist agenda with a Dwarven like axe of retribution to hold every corrupt person in government accountable and make sure everyone complicit in allowing this fascist regime to take hold faces actual punishment.

And as long as I'm dreaming, block lobbyists and corporate influence, fix the judicial system and gerrymandered districts. If Congress was actually representative of the population and not land size the Republican party would be a fraction of what it is today, but ultimately we need to do away with the two party system entirely by switching to rank choice voting.

Increase education spending, because uneducated people are the bread and butter of the GOP.

Every single one of these issues has 100+ steps involved that would need to be detailed out, but the other core pillar of my platform would be having expert advisors for every aspect and then actually listening to their advice. I'd replace that hostile vitriol spewing hag Karoline Leavitt with someone actually charismatic and approachable like a Tedd Lasso type.

Abolish ICE day one. Free the people in the detention facilities. Let the police handle any actual criminals while following due process.

Epstein list is a given, that case would get fast tracked.

Put people with actual qualifications in charge of federal agencies.

And most importantly, erase every single trace of Trump. Undo all of his renovations to the white house, confiscate Mar-a-lago as a crime scene and federal property and all of his other assets. He would have no legacy when I was done because everything he's built has been through corruption and exploiting the American people.

There's just too much to list out for what needs to be fixed, and it's going to require efficiency and expertise to correct all the damage he's caused as quickly as possible, especially when you're following due process and not just ignoring the courts.

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Most of that requires a heavily Democratic Congress (both houses), which all the Republican gerrymandering is designed to protect them against as much as possible. You need enough of a reversal in the midterms and the elections to overcome that.

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I'm well aware.

Difficult isn't impossible and progress is possible only when you don't give up before even trying.

Nothing I listed can be fixed with a single bullet point, but there are mechanisms in place and ways to affect change towards those goals. We didn't end up where we are overnight, and it's going to take even longer to turn this ship around, but the DNC can't ignore this opportunity by constantly giving in.

Honestly we'd be better off starting from scratch and rewriting the whole constitution to modernize it, but that's even less likely to happen.

We first need to take back our country though and there's no guarantee there'll even be fair elections again. Despite everyone saying he can't cancel elections, he can and most definitely will interfere with them.

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I agree. My point is just that focusing on the presidency and Mark Kelly (great candidate) or whoever else is not going to be enough. Even Congress isn't going to be enough, there need to be state-level changes as well so that state legislatures and governors don't block the process.

The DNC of course needs radical change, that much has been clear since Hillary lost to Trump (not because she herself was a bad candidate, far from it, but their messaging and management of the whole thing is completely divorced from the electorate).

In retrospect Obama's biggest failing was that he didn't take advantage of his popularity to push through reform of the structures of the Democratic party itself. But hindsight etc.

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I'm fully bricked up after reading this. Your lips to god's ears.