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"Ideas" Primary survey

I just checked the mail and behold I just got a survey from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.  They really want my input on the survey to help guide policy in the coming election season.  The trouble is that when it comes to politics every word in a statement needs to be given scrutiny five times over to make sure you know the meaning before you agree to it.  As such this "survey" is mostly a questionnaire on "How much do you agree with the policy positions we have already decided on?"

Noticeably absent from the survey is any mention of a Green New Deal, reforms to student loan programs and higher education to make it all more affordable, or even the medicare for all program that Bernie Sanders championed and some of the other prospective candidates for the 2020 Presidential election have supported.  This survey is more of a confirmation letter that the Democratic Party still isn't listening.

I can appreciate that the Trump administration has rallied the base and caused moderates to swing more towards the Democratic Party but making half of the "survey" questions about how much do you hate Trump's policies it makes the whole thing feel negative.  Hillary ran her campaign on a tactic of negativity towards Trump and how scary his Presidency would be and she lost.  (Trump sort of did the same thing keeping it negative against Hillary but Republicans respond to fear and hatred more than Democrats do.)

In the mean time I want to talk about what each candidate has in mind for a Green New Deal and how they would get it past and implement it.  (I tend to think that most of a Green New Deal should be done at the State level and all the Federal Government should do is change how their energy subsidy programs work, right now they favor fossil fuels and tilt the market in favor of coal, gas and oil.)

I want to hear what ideas there are for improving the Affordable Care Act.  I want to know what medicare for all would do because the financial structure of our healthcare system would change drastically if that happened and the short term transition would likely be a mess.

I want information on what they plan to do about the Dreamers act.  It seems like it should be as simple as saying, "If you can prove that you have lived continuously in the United States since Primary School and have a clean arrest record you are eligible for Amnesty, if you have an arrest record you can file an appeal for review.

Something that is a little more important to me than other people but which I would really like to know about...  I want to hear what the position is on funding science, engineering, and technology research in this country.  When I was a teenager we lead the world in funding science research but since Bush's cutting of funding for environmental research and pushing a more faith based approach and now Trump's attacks on science....  We should all be concerned about this.

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