That any two consenting adults have the right to enter into a marriage contract, with all of the rights and responsibilities it entails, including life insurance, employee health insurance, power of attorney, DNR, etc etc.
That's a good start.
Funding should never have become the deciding factor for who can run for office in this country.
We've spent many generations telling kids that "anyone can be president," but the current massive, convoluted system of money-funneling makes that a gigantic lie.
"Campaign contributions" and the buying power of the 1% now decide that only the already-wealthy can run for any office above the municipal level, which creates a self-defeating election for the rest of us no matter who wins.
In British terms, all we have are two Houses of Lords in Congress, who have set up a system in which only their financial peers even have a chance of getting in the door.
Have to chime in here, because I addressed it in my initial post.
We have forced health INSURANCE right now, which means we are forced into a bureaucratic system of deductibles, copays, and other monies being thrown around that in no way solves the problems we already had, and creates many more.
What we need in order to join the rest of the civilized world is forced government health CARE.
That means nationalized health and pharmaceutical industries, whose services are offered free of charge to citizens in need because they are government employees paid by taxes.
