The choice of adult woman in consultation with her doctors. We already trust adult men to make their own healthcare choices. It is not only commonsense to trust adult women with their healthcare choices, it is a human rights issue. When we trust women and their physicians, they tend to make the best choices for our society. When we try to force women, many of them are endangered by unsafe practices.

Strongly Disagree

Women die due to the denial of reproductive healthcare and this affects especially poor women.

Strongly Agree

Medical services should be legal and supervised by physicians with the agreement of patients and guardians.

Disagree

Religion is a free choice protected by the First Amendment and people who feel offended by requests for services can conscientiously object but if possible, other colleagues and organizations that are not offended should be allowed to provide equitable lawful services to all.

Churches that incite violence or organize armed insurrection against the government or against sections of the public deserve to be closed for public safety.

Looking for friends and not for enemies among Muslims would likely reduce the threat of terror the same way that the Marshall Plan reduced the threat of terror from the fascist countries that waged war against the Allied Forces in World War II. Peacemaking trumps warmongering.

Strongly Agree

The single state solution based on the US principles outlined in The Federalist Papers is my preferred solution to the Middle East crisis. I blogged about this innovative solution in 2008: https://massliteracy.blogspot.com/2012/11/jerusalaam-jerushalom.html

B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options.

If vaccination is necessary for public safety, it should be required.

Progressive taxation benefits the public. Those who earn more than a million dollars a year should be able to pay a higher rate for additional income over that.

Government spending on drug prohibition should be defunded and the funds reallocated to harm reduction. Drug dependency is a public health issue and not a criminal justice issue. Drug awareness education and rehabilitation work better.

Strongly Agree

College is not for everyone but those who are qualified and interested in higher education should be funded to gain the knowledge to serve the public more effectively. It is a win-win for all.

Disagree

The US is a country of immigrants who contribute to the success of the country in significant ways. 1/3 of US science Nobel Prize Winners are foreign born. The Statue of Liberty should continue welcoming those who are burdened and we should offer them a path to citizenship. More should be done to improve living conditions in countries of origin to reduce the push to emigrate.

The US should continue the Diversity Visa Lottery to bring more people from countries under-represented in the US. I wrote about this as a better model for Germany and the EU countries: https://digitalscholarship.tsu.edu/ajcjs/vol2/iss1/1/ Also, the gifted aliens visa program should continue with the H1B that brought me to the US in 1999.

Agree

School choice will always be allowed for parents to decide where their wards are educated, provided that public education that serves 99% of our students is not denied funds in order to give vouchers to for profit schools that are selective.

Strongly Disagree

Police Departments are capable of making serious mistakes in their policies and if those policies result in harms against members of the public, they should be held accountable

Strongly Agree

The police officers will agree that they are not trained to respond top mental health crisis. They will likely welcome the shift of resources to those better able to respond to such crises.

Military style assault rifles, drones, grenades, tanks and bazookas were never intended to be included in the 2nd Amendment

Strongly Agree

Just like cars, gun ownership should carry third party insurance policies to protect innocenbt victims from harm

Honest Abe Lincoln said it best, government is of the people, by the people,, and for the people.. Government exists to serve the public interest. That is why the preamble to the Constitution says, We the People. Not we the billionaires, nor we the corporations, nor we the men. You cannot spell the US without us!

Very Liberal

Liberty was the foundational value of the Declaration of Independence and the Abolition of Slavery as symbolized by the Statue of Liberty. Anyone who is against more liberty for Americans is obviously anti-American. However, Liberty is not a License to hate, that is why we need a government for the equal protection of all with due process under the law

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Never

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Agree

Religious morality is important in every society but Judeo-Christian morality is not the only value system that informs good conduct in the US. American Indian reverence for nature, African American reverence for non-violence, Buddhist practices of meditation and contemplation, Islamic teachings about forgiveness and Rastafarian philosophy of One Love for all are all important moral values worthy of mutual respect. Keep religion and the state separate.

Strongly Agree

Homophobia did not exist in indigenous societies until colonizers introduced the hysteria. It is harmful to our fellow citizens to expose them to bullying just because of their gender identity. Parents tell me that they are worried about bullying in schools and it is shameful to see some elected officials also bullying children about their bathroom choices. Town festivals and home restroom do not check birth certificates before allowing people to use bathrooms. Add gender neutral bathrooms.

Strongly Disagree

Marriage is between consenting adults and the government should recognize the equality of all lawful marriages. As the Supreme Court has rules, this is to protect the estates of same-sex couples against the seizure of their properties after one partner dies under the pretext that they were not married.

I am a lover of the teachings of Jesus Christ and I believe in religious tolerance and diversity. I grew up as an altar boy in the Catholic Church but I also observed my parents make sacrifices in their traditional African shrines. They explained to me that it is the same one God that we all worship in our different ways.

Strongly Agree

This is already allowed in cases of absentee ballots. We should be making it easier for people to vote, not harder especially because a huge proportion of the voters do not bother to vote.

Allow electronic voting from home and introduce voter lotteries to award one million dollars per state to a lucky voter during elections. That may encourage more voters to participate.

Strongly Agree

Critical Race Theory is not only about racism, it also addresses sexism and classism. It states that there is race-class-gender inequality in our society and that we should do more to guarantee the equal protection of all under the law as promised by the 13th Amendment. Inequality and injustice harm the public interest whereas E Pluribus, Unum promises a more perfect union.

Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups in the US and reports that they are increasing in number. The attack on Congress on January 7 2020 and the attack on Charlottesville that resulted in deaths of law enforcement officers allegedly featured hate groups. Virginia is for Lovers and not for Haters. Once upon a time, anti-Black racism drove the Confederates to wage war against the United States and cost the country 700,000 lives. Never again!

Strongly Agree

Almost every group that suffered historic injustice has been offered reparations, except people of African descent. The US would be a moral example to the European allies who benefitted from the enslavement of Africans for hundreds of years by setting up a significant reparative justice package. California is considering such a policy and Virginia should study this option.It will be in public interest.

B) Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost. Allowing funding for environmental scientific research and clean energy will definitely discover more affordable alternatives to environmental pollution that harms public health. A healthy environment will also attract or create more jobs.

Disagree

Fracking is not an efficient source of energy and the huge costs have discourgaged drilling companies as oil prices fall. We should support more clean energy because this is increasingly the future.