John Thompson Parker

Strongly Disagree

Health care should be a right and it's denial should be criminal. We must fight the reactionary denial of abortion rights in Texas which is dangerously spreading throughout the country. This denial will cost women their lives by forcing unnecessary delays and little to no access to abortions. This is a health care issue and an issue about the equality of women and a person's basic right to determine what happens with their bodies.

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Health care should be a right and it's denial should be criminal. We must fight the reactionary denial of abortion rights in Texas which is dangerously spreading throughout the country. This denial will cost women their lives by forcing unnecessary delays and little to no access to abortions. This is a health care issue and an issue about the equality of women and a person's basic right to determine what happens with their bodies.

Strongly Agree

The tax burden should be turned upside down. Currently the burden falls on working people when it should fall on the 1% and less than 1%. The people who create the wealth of society, workers, are already exploited enough under capitalism.

Strongly Disagree

The priorities must be reversed. Spending on death is currently the priority. The endless imperialist wars that U.S. continues and encourages does nothing but kill and impoverish our country while increasing the tremendous wealth of the monopoly industrial and financial corporations dealing in war. That should be stopped immediately, allowing those funds to be used for what people need to live, like funding for covid relief, housing, and a minimum wage that counters the 8 percent inflation.

It's been proven time and again that lowering corporate taxes does not promote economic health. The tax burden should be turned upside down. Currently the burden falls on working people when it should fall on the 1% and less than 1%. The people who create the wealth of society, workers, are already exploited enough under capitalism.

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Neutral

Religion should not dictate the matters of State. Working and poor people and their organizations, representing those who create the wealth through their labor, should decide on the matters of State.

The denial of science-based health care should not be allowed. To not allow public places the protection necessary - based on the general worldwide recommendations of science and medicine - is to deny that essential healthcare to the public. Therefore anyone choosing to work or study in a public institution must be required to be vaccinated, especially when they interact with children or the elderly.

Option A. The for-profit health care system in the U.S. serves only the for-profit health care industry and pharmaceutical companies that facilitate death and hold all of us hostage with their prices based on the maximization of profits, not cost of production. We need to end the privatization of the pharmaceutical industry and immediately begin supplying the necessary medicine to those in need.

Option D. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: the greatest purveyor of violence today - my own government. The biggest threat to humanity is not the "hostile" governments who are in fact targets of U.S. imperialism. The biggest threat to humanity is U.S. imperialist wars and proxy wars that promote a non-peaceful world, a worldwide refugee crisis, the growth of terrorism and are now responsible for the horrific prospects of World War III due to the reckless aims of the U.S. government to further expand NATO, which has nearly doubled in size in the last 20 years encircling and threatening Russia. The Warsaw pact disbanded in 1990, and instead of NATO following that unilateral disarming of the Soviets and their allies, it immediately began prosecuting war with the bombing of 10,000 homes in Yugoslavia, war against Iraq that killed 500,000 children and a proxy war in Syria and bombing and destruction of Libya, where slavery now exists. The U.S. assistance with Saudi Arabia is causing the starvation of millions of children from Yemen. This will only stop when we disarm the greatest threat to humanity - the Pentagon and U.S.-led NATO.

Strongly Agree

Across the world, more and more people recognize the similarities between the racist former system of Apartheid in South Africa with the Zionist government of Israel and are condemning the continued genocide against the people of Palestine - funded and encouraged by the U.S. government. Like the endless funding of wars that continue and intensify poverty here in the U.S., there is an endless flow of U.S. arms and dollars to the Israeli war machine of over $11-million-a-day in military, loans etc

Strongly Disagree

The biggest threat to humanity is not the "hostile" governments who are in fact targets of U.S. imperialism. The biggest threat to humanity is U.S. imperialist wars and proxy wars that promote a non-peaceful world, a worldwide refugee crisis, the growth of terrorism and are now responsible for the horrific prospects of World War III due to the reckless aims of the U.S. to further expand NATO, which has nearly doubled in size in the last 20 years encircling and threatening Russia & China.

Stop the endless wars like the war in Afghanistan that created terrorists which the U.S. also selectively works with in the war against Yemen, in Syria and the nazis it has been training and funding in the Ukraine.

Strongly Disagree

Immigration must be understood in the context of U.S. imperialist wars. The current worldwide refugee crisis is a direct result of the U.S. war on Iraq, Libya and Syria. Most of the migration from Mexico and Central and South America is due to both economic and military wars waged by the U.S. against these regions, forcing workers to come over the border risking life and faced with constant terror of being deported. Stopping U.S. wars and imperialist policies is key.

Strongly Disagree

Immigration must be understood in the context of U.S. imperialist wars. The current worldwide refugee crisis is a direct result of the U.S. war on Iraq, Libya and Syria. Most of the migration from Mexico and Central and South America is due to both economic and military wars waged by the U.S. against these regions, forcing workers to come over the border risking life and faced with constant terror of being deported. Migrants in this country contribute to the vast wealth of this country without benefit of social security or pensions, yet they pay taxes. Any policy must first take this into account. And, instead of making the lives of migrants worse, perhaps reparations should be due for destroying countries. Any border control policies should be humane and more closely resemble the policies of those countries following humane policies as established by international norm.

Strongly Agree

Racism and sexism and gender oppression are the consistent tools used to weaken unity between working and poor peoples of various nationalities, ethnic backgrounds or sexual orientation or gender. The solutions to the problems we face depend on the building of unity and solidarity with each other's oppression by this system of capitalism. We have the power to demand no more global warming, end to poverty and war and jobs at a living wage, only if we remain united and target our common enemy.

Strongly Agree

Racism is the means by which the owners of the financial and industrial monopolies that run this country maintain their grip on the instruments of production that should be in public hands. By keeping working and poor people fighting each other by building nonsensical opposition to critical race theory - which is really just honest history - the ruling class is hoping it can extinguish solidarity with especially Black people in this country. In a country built on racism, solidarity is essential

Until there is evidence denying the greatest method to understanding the world, I will continue to believe in science, because there is evidence justifying that belief. The decisions we make in creating our society should be based on truth and empathy and equality and justice for all. That is why it is vital that we understand how the methods of production determine the values and laws of society.

Neutral

The voting rights act has been targeted for the purpose of the further disenfrachisement of especially Black and Brown people. This attack must be stopped immediately.

Strongly Agree

Reparations should be given to people on the basis of oppression, especially when that oppression denied a grouping their right to economic success, especially in regards to uncompensated labor. Using that criteria would make especially Black people effected still by the theft of land and relatives stolen, who provided the economic basis of the wealth still enjoyed by especially banks and industry in the U.S. due reparations.

Absolutely. Unity and solidarity cannot occur without justice.

Strongly Disagree

We have only one earth with one thin layer of atmosphere which, if either are damaged to the degree that continues, will extinguish human life on this planet. I'd say that protecting the environment and stopping global warming are, therefore, worth it.

Very Liberal

I am a socialist working toward abolishing this system of capitalism.

My Party is called the Socialist Unity Party. You can find my articles and Party at strugglelalucha.org.

No

It has become crystal clear that the institutions in this country, and those who support them and enable them, can no longer be trusted to provide even the most basic protections of life, and increasingly threaten the existence of others beyond its borders. It is therefore time to take a sober look at our world and the rapidly deteriorating effects this systemic incompetence is having on our communities, our workplaces and our families. The two-party system in the U.S. of Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin, funded by and serving the same corporate masters. Their politicians, in general, will continue to make decisions of war, climate change, growing economic impoverishment and racist and sexist state repression based on the sole motivation of maximizing profits for their masters - who have ultimate control over the use of those profits. It’s our work, day in and day out that make those profits possible, yet this system does not allow us any real say in the consistent decision to spend trillions on war and relative pennies on social necessities. This will only change when corporate and financial monopoly ownership of the industries of production and finance are transferred to the majority – to those who it oppresses and exploits. This campaign is about building a movement to make that systemic change possible.

Strongly Disagree

Police terror and murder are especially a threat to Black and Brown people. However, even at a lesser extent, they are also a threat to most workingclass and poor people in general. Communities especially targeted by racist killings by police must have the right to abolish the police and use resources given to them to create their own methods of security and safety.

Strongly Agree

Not only the funds, the departments should be abolished and replaced with institutions of safety and security developed by working people, especially those communities of color should have that right since they are victimized by police terror on a daily basis.

Gun violence has been normalized by the daily killing by police, especially against Black and Brown youth. We must create better systems for keeping guns out of the hands of those who's mental or moral capacity does not warrant the ownership of a gun, and that must include banning guns from cops.

Neutral