I know I’m only scratching the
surface here. Let me know if you have suggestions to add to the list.
- Indiscriminately collecting communications data on hundreds of millions of Americans who are not suspected of any terrorist or illegal activities.
- Conducting surveillance and data gathering on friendly foreign leaders.
- Imprisoning and torturing people in Guantanamo Bay who have not been charged with any crime.
- Using drones to murder foreign nationals who have not been convicted of any crime.
- Using drones that regularly kill innocent civilians in foreign countries.
- Allowing the FBI and local police departments to spy on and infiltrate peaceful, legitimate protest organizations.
- Allowing the militarization of America’s police departments.
- Admitting marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, yet continuing to arrest and imprison people for using marijuana.
- Continuing to pour billions of dollars into a worldwide drug war that is universally condemned as a failed policy.
- Continuing the long running policy of supporting foreign leaders who are “friendly” to the U.S. regardless of their human rights records.
- Continuing to be the largest exporter of weapons to the world.
- Punishing whistleblowers instead of those criminals who are exposed by the whistleblowers.
- Not making campaign finance reform a major policy initiative.
- Not charging any bankers or Wall Street power players with crimes for the 2008 economic meltdown.
- Trying to push through trade agreements like TPP in secret without sufficient input and discussion from stakeholders.
- Allowing Israel to have undue influence over policy making both in Congress and the White House.
- Continuing to spend a disproportionate amount of taxpayer dollars on the military and intelligence operations.
- Allowing radical Republicans to set the parameters of debate on a number of important topics.
- Not doing more to reverse or negate the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
- Continuing to underfund scientific research.
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