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A More Perfect Union
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Yesterday, at the Arlington Public Library in Riverside, California, 27 average Americans came together to do an uncommon thing. We gathered together, at the request of the Democratic National Committee, to discuss our values, priorities and recommendations for planks in the Democratic Party's 2008 national platform.
From discussion among these 27 average Americans emerged a range of priorities, from resurrecting the Constitution to ending the war on Iraq to finding ways to reduce the drop out rate. From six flip chart pages we narrowed the topics down to six for in depth discussion, then three of us went home and crafted the notes of that discussion into planks for the platform.
Tonight, we submitted those recommended planks for consideration by the DNC Platform Committee, and we share them below.
A More Perfect Union:
The 2008 Democratic National Platform
for the United States of America
Preamble
We, the Democrats of the United States, in order to perfect our Union, re-establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the General Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Platform for the Democratic Party in America.
Upholding the Constitution
Rule of Law. The Democratic Party upholds the rule of law, and recognizes the Constitution of the United States of America as the supreme law of the land. We uphold the principle that no one is above the law, including the President of the United States. We therefore reject and denounce the concept of the Unitary Executive and, instead, solemnly affirm the principle of separation and balance of powers between the co-equal executive, legislative and judicial branches as specified by the Founders.
Unalienable Rights. The Democratic Party affirms and upholds the core principles on which our nation was founded: that all people – everywhere – are created Equal and endowed with Unalienable Rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; freedom of religion; freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of assembly; security in our persons, houses, communications and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures; issuance of warrants only for probable cause; freedom from slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor and sexual bondage.
Consent of the Governed. We solemnly affirm and uphold the principle that governments are instituted for the sole purpose of upholding Unalienable Rights, deriving their Just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, who may organize these Powers in such a way that seems to them will most likely protect their Safety and Happiness. The Democratic Party shall faithfully preserve, protect and defend these Rights from all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Health Care
Universal Access. In order to promote the General Welfare, the Democratic Party shall strive to assure universal access to quality, affordable health care within the U.S. and all areas under its jurisdiction. We shall support health research and services that protect the public and assure quality of life to medically underserved communities.
Universal Coverage. Respecting the ethical mandate of the Hippocratic Oath, and recognizing the practical need to protect the public health, we shall work by achievable steps toward assuring universal coverage of all health care costs by whatever means feasible to most expediently achieve these goals by 2012.
Veterans Affairs. America has a moral as well as contractual obligation to those who serve in our armed forces to take care of their health needs. Democrats shall fully fund the Veterans Administration to whatever extent necessary to provide adequately for the best health and mental health care possible to meet the needs of our veterans and their families.
Foreign Policy
America’s Role in the World. In order to provide for the Common Defense, the Democratic Party shall strive to re-establish the credibility and reputation of the United States of America throughout the world by acknowledging our role within the global community, giving due respect to the sovereignty of fellow nations.
Diplomacy First. We refute the arrogant and unconscionable Doctrine of Pre-emption at all levels of government. We shall pursue a foreign policy that actively engages in diplomacy as the primary means of resolving conflict.
Terrorism. Democrats recognize that the threats of terrorism are real, and that it is our responsibility to protect and defend the American people from these threats. We pledge to actively pursue removal of the root causes of terrorism and emphasize advancement of human rights and dignity for all people throughout the world.
Economy
Prudent Oversight. To ensure Domestic Tranquility and Prosperity and to aid in the Common Defense, the Democratic Party supports a robust economy tempered by a minimum of responsible laws and regulations required to protect and defend the American people. We shall enforce the existing anti-trust laws, reinstate usury laws, and reestablish responsible oversight of banking and finance to purge the unethical and predatory business practices that have wrought havoc on our economy. We shall reform or repeal the bankruptcy laws that now leave the victims of such business practices facing lives of poverty and despair.
Living Wage. We believe the purpose of work is to provide for the necessities of life, that just wages must be sufficient to provide those necessities, and that wages insufficient to provide such necessities constitute economic bondage and servitude. We therefore pledge to establish a federal standard for a living wage, and to secure social security in perpetuity.
Taxes. Democrats believe taxes are the dues we each must pay for the benefit of living in a civilized society, and therefore, in order to more fairly distribute responsibility for maintaining our liberties, we shall roll back tax cuts that benefit only the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
Rebuilding American Enterprise. We support incentives that reward development of innovation and enterprise within the U.S. that provides stable, sustainable, and gainful employment for the American people. In the interests of the American people and our national security, we will roll back incentives and tax breaks for businesses that promote off-shoring American business and jobs.
Global Economy. Democrats recognize the need to balance America’s domestic economy with the realities of the rapidly evolving global economy. We support strengthening the American people’s place within the global community without compromising our values by engaging in fair trade policies that protect workers and the environment.
Energy and the Environment
Energy Policy and the Global Climate Crisis. To secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, the Democratic Party shall endeavor to lead the country and the world in combating the threat to security and health posed by global climate change. We will accomplish this goal with a multi-pronged strategy to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, work with other nations to reduce carbon emissions, and develop alternative energy sources and means of transportation.
Reducing Our Dependence on Foreign Oil. In order to reduce the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, which makes our country vulnerable to the whims of foreign governments, the Democratic Party shall set the objective of reducing our overall reliance on fossil fuels. We support promoting energy conservation and increasing fuel economy standards.
Development of Alternative Energy Sources. Reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil demands that we seek clean alternative energy sources. Fossil fuels are a finite resource, and continued prospecting and drilling contributes to habitat destruction. Therefore, Democrats will challenge America’s scientists and engineers to develop cleaner alternative energy sources and remediation strategies. To support this challenge, we will increase funding for energy research and development and promote investment in clean technologies.
Reducing Carbon Emissions. The Democratic Party believes combating global climate change will be the major challenge of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures and increasingly volatile changes in weather patterns threaten our food supplies, our health, and our coastal cities. To slow the mean rise in global temperature, we will join the global community’s efforts to regulate carbon emissions, support carbon sequestration efforts and bring a halt to deforestation.
Education
Education Is the Foundation of Democracy. The Democratic Party holds that an educated citizenry is the foundation of a robust, prosperous and sustainable democracy. As such, we support a strong system of free public primary and secondary education, and access to the means to make college education affordable for all citizens who seek one.
Funding Education Professionals. We believe that a secure and prosperous future of America depends upon investment in public education. The Democratic Party supports the recruitment and training of talented teachers at all grade levels, and providing due compensation appropriate to such highly educated professionals.
Reducing the Drop Out Rate. Recognizing that education is the path to prosperity, and that illiteracy and innumeracy too frequently lead to a lifetime path of poverty or crime, Democrats support the development of programs and strategies to reduce the drop out rate and ensure all students graduate from high school.
Higher Education. Democrats believe that our obligation to educate does not stop at high school. We pledge to make all forms of post-secondary education accessible to all citizens through implementation of tuition tax credits, more readily accessible financial aid, and giving tuition credits for National Service.
A Strong Science and Mathematics Curriculum. Democrats believe that many of the challenges of the 21st century can be met by training scientists and engineers of the highest caliber. We support development and implementation of a strong science and mathematics curriculum at all grade levels to build the brain power of future generations necessary in the years to come to solve the problems of global climate change, developing new green products and industries, and cure diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and HIV-AIDS.
I appreciate your comments. It was a lot of fun. Good ideas make easy work.
-d
P.S. And I appreciated your help the other night, too.
- I Chaired or Congressional District Platform and our Committee combined 100s of hours of volunteer time.
By Phil Specht on Jul 28, 2008 6:39 PM EDThere is the link http://www.idp1st.org/district_platform.php
"The Democratic Party supports programs that encourage all Americans to reach their full potential with appropriate protections and incentives for them to achieve the fulfillment of human dignity. Only then can the United States of America be the shining beacon of democracy for the world." is part of the new Statement of Principles
"the fulfillment of human dignity"
should include better treatment of the work product of Monica Smith which she is graciously donating than to hide behind a link and "disappear" her words
My experience was that Party Apparatchiks take over the process part way up the food chain, and deep-six any really creative idears, or those which do not adhere to the Party Line or to the Candidate's positions.
I found it a futile exercise
And the simple act of opening the door to average Democrats has been a liberating and unifying experience for our group of participants. We may not see a single sentence of our work in the platform, but even so, we will not see the work as futile. It brought Democrats together - out of the shadows and into the daylight to discuss the serious issues of our time. For that alone, it was a worthwhile exercise,
Thank you, Denise, for sharing the principles. Lots of work, thought, dialogue that went into this. It is the backbone of our party and the values that we stand for and work towards implementing.
Just some thoughts: math and science are very important, no argument, but so are the humanities. I don't recall whether I heard it or read it, but a prominent physicist, I think, said what we need are the humane/liberal arts because communication is key. We have to learn to talk to one another from different vantage points, and subject areas are so complicated, dense, and arcane that people even in the same broad field can't communicate well.
Thank you for your comments, Pat (in My Home State). We don't disagree with you. However, we had several scientists in our group (full blown PhDs) and a doctor, so the embattlement of the scientific community and the evisceration of funding for crucial scientific research was a major priority in our group.
As a philosophy major myself, who graduated from a small liberal arts college, I fully agree that the humanities should be given full due and recognized for the value they bring. However, even so, I am more concerned at the moment about the ramifications of the full frontal assault the neo-cons have waged against science and reason, and I don't think that is a coincidence.
If we'd had much more time and energy, we definitely could, and would, have elaborated into both the arts and humanities.
a day before the 2004 Wisconsin primary was one of the best reasoned defenses of science ever spoken to a college audience, among other topics
by Wisconsin he no longer had a staff insisting on narrow scripted talking points, and had returned to an earlier form that had him the frontrunner months before
the nation would be in a far better place by now had the good Doctor been at the helm
To Pat, you have a most excellent point about the humanities and the ability to communicate. As a contributor to the science emphasis portion of the "More Perfect Union" document, I had no thought of denying the absolutely critical issue of communication skills. Actually, I was an elementary school teacher for 20 years, much of it as a mentor teacher specializing in literacy. However, I have noted a specific assault on science by the current administration. Vital information about alternative energy sources, STD's, birth control, stem cell research, evolution, etc., have been stymied and we are going to be about a decade behind in research and behind in just plain knowledge. Another subject I think we need to reintroduce is Civics. But, while just three hours was limiting, it was a priviledge to have those hours to participate in Democracy!
- A More Perfect Union continued. This 1000 word limit is awful.
By Pat in Colorado on Jul 28, 2008 7:33 PM EDTWith respect to Generation X, they are simply not trained in the Humanities generally, in my perception. They are highly skilled in various areas, but don't have the background in philsophy, psychology, literature, history, social studies, languages etc. So, I'd modify or add to saying a refocusing on the Humanities will aid us in understanding other cultures and working with them diplomatically and in all the areas we are engaged such as economics, education, business, etc.
Public transportation is inferred, I think, but not stated explicitly. I read that a train can transport more goods on the equivalent of a gallon of gas than any other transportation. Our cars, trucks, buses etc., not only pollute, are expensive, but also are loud, destructive as to road quality and accidents, and destroy habitat. I've read it would cost billions to create a bullet train such as Japan has or the efficient train transportation of Europe, but I think it would be worth it.
These are just a few of the thoughts I had, but I think what you and others have done is excellent. You put your effort where you words are, and that's so much more than what most of us do.
We wouldn't necessarily disagree. My husband, who scribed during the process, is a civil engineer, so we live the transportation and infrastructure issues daily at our house. Those issue just didn't come during the course of the general discussion with our group.
It's a great big country, and there is only so much you can cover in three hours!
- The Iowa Platform linked to in my post is limited to 3500 words.
By Phil Specht on Jul 28, 2008 8:32 PM EDTThe entire document so much work goes into the editing function.Read it and pick out a favorite Pat. Bill Richardson promoted art in the schools at every stop while running in Iowa.
I think they added the 1000 character limit to pump up the number of posts
I like the idealism, return to first principles, and tone of shared responsibility.
Here are 3 sections that come up short:
1. "Universal Coverage. Respecting the ethical mandate of the Hippocratic Oath, and recognizing the practical need to protect the public health, we shall work by achievable steps toward assuring universal coverage of all health care costs by whatever means feasible to most expediently achieve these goals by 2012."
"achievable steps", "whatever means feasible", and "most expediently" need to be struck from the text.
Too much wiggle room and incrementalism here. This wouldn't be in the platform if HRC was the nominee.
Private health insurance is a protection racket shaking down the the healthy among us and extorting from before dumping those of us with "pre-existing conditions."
Give businesses and the self employed a medicare buy in at 3 percent of payroll (or whatever the medicare take needs to be for covering seniors)and watch the Health Care Greed Syndicate whither on the vine.
2. "Reducing Carbon Emissions. The Democratic Party believes combating global climate change will be the major challenge of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures and increasingly volatile changes in weather patterns threaten our food supplies, our health, and our coastal cities. To slow the mean rise in global temperature, we will join the global community’s efforts to regulate carbon emissions, support carbon sequestration efforts and bring a halt to deforestation."
Why just concern for OUR coastal cities?
What about the drowning Pacific Islanders and other low lying regions. (Hawaii's Jack Johnson rules on this btw)
As the dominant contributor of the existing atmospheric carbon deposits, the US has to enforce upon the giant fossil fuel corporations that their enterprises UNLAWFULLY trespass on the
"Unalienable Rights. . . [of] all people – everywhere – . . . among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
3."Democrats support the development of programs and strategies to reduce the drop out rate and ensure all students graduate from high school."
Short shrift. Who doesn't support this?
The first time I saw Howard Dean, Candidate for POTUS, interviewed was during the last round of reauthorization of IDEA,
the Americans with Disabilities Education Act.
Vermont's Jim Jeffords had valiantly attempted to make full funding of the long authorized 40 percent federal funding of the costs of IDEA part of his bargain to desrt the GOP and hand Senate control over to the Democrats.
Minnesota's Paul Wellstone had tried to shame the Senate into the deal by comparing the unfunded educational needs of students with disabilities to the windfall inheritances of children of the wealthly benefiting from the suspension of estate taxes.
House Republicans, with HR-1350, basically were trying to gut the legal protections of IDEA because, according to the GOP and Bush Dept of Ed, No Child Left Behind covered everything IDEA was about.
Senator Kennedy's leadership salvaged IDEA reauthorization.
Candidate Howard Dean told Newshour's Jim Lehrer that his first budget as President would fund the full federal share of IDEA!
Jeffords and Wellstone have left the building. Kennedy is ailing.
Dean never got a shot at that budget.
The Democratic platform on Education should commit to fully funding the federal share of IDEA within 4 years and make the funding a mandatory rather than discretionary budget item.
Providing effective education to students with recognized disabilities in the classroom with their typical peers will provide collateral benefits to all students and give the at risk and "slow learner" kids in the room a better shot at their diploma as well.
Thank you for your comments. Here's a bit of a response to each one.
1. Would we all like to wave a magic wand to take greed out of the health insurance? Of course! But no magic wand exists & passing legislation outlawing private health insurance and setting up single payer plan cannot instantly fix the problem. In fact, such an approach would probably make matters worse and bog down the process for years, in the mean time denying those who need it most the coverage they so badly need.
2. Point well taken. It was not our intent to sound so selfish, but striking the word "our" twice wouldn't hurt.
3. I don't think anyone in our group would disagree with you about the need to fund adequately the educational needs of children with disabilities, it just wasn't a priority put on the table by our group.
Remember HRC's reformulated approach.
"Everyone who wants to keep what they have now will be welcomed to do so."
Optional public coverage buy in that SCHIP expansion was laying the groundwork for brings in many of the uninsured left out of the private system that cost more than the monthly mortgage payment.
It also brings in small business that needs to cover employees to retain them.
Then the over charged but currently covered will wonder why they should continue the guilded private plans when the public coverage works better and at less cost.
The wording of this part of your platform strikes me as deferential to the private health insurance industry which I hear has been very generous to all the major
POTUS Candidates who have accepted the loot.
my preference is the Edwards approach, but he didn't win the primary
There was no deference at all in the room for the insurance companies. And we had quite an animated discussion about the best recommendation to make. The reality is that if it were easy for us to craft a solution on a Saturday afternoon, people far smarter than us would already have done so.
But they haven't. That doesn't necessarily speak to appeasement so much as the reality of the immense complexity of the problem.
"The reality is that if it were easy for us to craft a solution on a Saturday afternoon, people far smarter than us would already have done so."
Don't be too sure of that or sell yourself short.
I see y'all did cover a lot over one afternoon. And you ended up with a good document. Hope the final product of the Party comes out decisive, progressive, and believable.
I liked your report of having lunch with him. He is such a likeable guy at the personal level. I've had lunch with three other national chairs (good people all)over the years and wouldn't trade the bunch of them for Howard. His performance nation wide in the last election will go down in history as the best ever by a Chair unless he tops it this time.
What was written was the result of TEDIOUS and hard work by all of us. The only thing that irks me is the misspelling of the word "inalienable" (which was spelled UN alienable). Also, we didn't have a chance to discuss abortion rights, gay marriages, etc. as the time was limited. I TOTALLY love how the leaders put ALL of our ideas into a concise document, and really do HOPE someone important in the DNC reads it and takes it to heart. Our parameters were to NOT be specific, but only to make statements of values and general ideas, and to leave the specifics up to the DNC to work out. Things that didn't make it into the statement were HOW to do the things we want to do, because there was too much dissent in the HOW aspect.
there are a thousand good ideas out there, but the voters can't handle that kind of information overload
I think we need to just swipe the NSA spyware that knows what everybody thinks and use it to organize the thousands of good ideas
I think a blog like format would work to write one and might help with the annotated bibliography and white papers that would be used by legislative staffers to set parameters for the hearings and a Legislative Service Bureau could use it for a bills final language
but initially platform work is somebody that knows a little more about some aspect of american life than another and what in conversation resonates that makes this or that issue rise to the point of collective action
...that knows what everybody thinks and use it to organize the thousands of good ideas..."
LOLOLOLOL!
Karen, we did double check the spelling. Thomas Jefferson used the word unaliendable in the Declaration of Independence. That was good enough for us.
Many English words changed spelling since the documents were first formed, and also they didn't have a concise and central dictionary back then. So, understanding the origin of "unalienable", I can see why you did it like that. In fact, it was kind of cute that you used the old English spelling. I have to smile. My granddaughter also said that defense was spelled "defence" back then. I also remember that the word for "left handedness" was "sinister". So, I totally get it now. VERY creative!!!!!
WOW. WHAT A TOTALLY AWESOME RUSH OF ADRENALINE. To think, little old me with my diabetes, breast cancer, post stroke inability to walk right, and arthritis can HAVE A SAY in our democratic process. I don't care if ALL the higher ups don't listen to me. At least some of the LOWER higher ups DID. Wow. I have been to heaven and back. NO OTHER DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HAS EVER, EVER, EVER let us do this; in fact, Obama ENCOURAGED us to speak up. WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOWs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- The Iowa process makes the platform central to our preference process.
By Phil Specht on Jul 28, 2008 9:44 PM EDTother states should try it.
We finally had both houses of the legislature and a Democratic Governor, and they went about passing our platform almost plank by plank.
In Iowa we run a co-ordinated campaign that says elect us in a majority and we will do this and this and this, candidates buy into it because they have a say. It is the concensus of the candidates that these are the three top issues that will be echoed up and down the ballot.
The platform process runs parallel and also lets the delegates prioritize.
I don't think it is fair to voters to balance sixty different things but they ought to have a guarantee that something will be done if Democrats win in November.
Barack has promised two so far, that we will begin extricating ourselves from the internal affairs of Iraq, and that we will change the way business is done in Washington with elevating the concerns of the citizens over those of the lobbyists.(and this platform process shows he means that at some level).
My question to those here is this; what is the third most important campaign promise he must make?
Reinstate the Constitution.
Hands down the single most important priority of all. Everything else flows from it, and nothing else has meaning without it.
I still feel Obama intends to restore the Constitution, but I feel better about it if he would have stood with the Fourth Amendment.
I don't think Obama can now claim that to be one of his top three, we will have to fight to make it a priority next year.
I've heard of this process, and I am intrigued. It makes so much more sense for the electorate to have a say in setting establishing the values and the priorities.
- polling and focus groups if well designed reach a similar place as a good platform process
By Phil Specht on Jul 28, 2008 10:31 PM EDTI once met with a consultant who explained how Republicans went about focus groups and polling to come up with ten things that a large majority wanted and the Democrats didn't already own and came out with the Contract With America and went on in '94 to win Congress
don't underestimate the electoral power of a list of actions desired by a majority
Karen, your enthusiasm is infectious. I'm smiling as I write this. You are so right: the process is terrific. Al Gore talks about the importance of process.
Also Denise, agree completely that restoring the Constitution is the first priority. Also, the denigration of science and reason with the defunding of research is destructive to our society as well as the regulation and analysis of everything from drugs to the environment to disease to education to, well it's all connected.
More to follow because of the 1000 character limit.
When we participate in the process, it is a thrill because it's still pretty unique in the world. It's great to hear what my neighbors think, what other citizens think who have different experiences. In our area, wild life, forestry, education, business, farming, ranching, the arts, recreation, mining, oil and gas, so many different factors come together making a whole that with intelligence, balance, fairness, and long term thinking I believe we can make work.
And finally, I don't understand why the blog has gone the way it has, but I think the people here are so worth knowing and hearing from. I'm sorry that there seems to be little if any communication about the goals and the process as to what the blog is becoming. In any case, I appreciate the privilege of having been able to learn and communicate here and hope that once again, it will be democratic and open.
Presently the blog feels anything but democratic.
"it is a thrill because it's still pretty unique in the world"
I really like this sentence
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As part of the 27 of Riverside who took advantage of the open invitation to join the discussion of platform issues, it was a wonderful opportunity to be part of such a process. We had no intent to give exceptional deference to science and math at the expense of communication skills. But, many of us had noted a particular lack of, shall we say, enthusiasm from the current administration for scientific inquiry. Promotion of intellectual curiosity has been somewhat lacking these past 7 1/2 years. I felt that we were losing so much ground in research (alternative energy sources, stem cell research, etc.) that a mention of it was appropriate. We will not achieve energy independence without a serious commitment. It was a great experience. I appreciated the sharing of ideas. Thanks again to the facilitators, Denise, Marci, and Mike.
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