ryanznock

Do you think any of the following 'progressive' policies can be squared with your view of 'conservative' ideology?

• Acting to lower carbon emissions.
• Universal health care (be it single payer, government-run hospitals, or otherwise).
• Net neutrality.
• Marriage rights (and in general equal protection) for gay people.
• Criminal justice reform, particularly decriminalizing many drugs, ending civil forfeiture, and removing the profit motive in how prisons are run.

Actually the leading democratic candidates have outlined what they mean by reparations, if you go looking. There's not enough oxygen in the room for every detail to get covered by the press, and I think it's a hurdle for the Dems because people are assuming they mean something different than what they're actually proposing.

In short, nobody except the weirdo Marianne Williamson is calling for actual direct payments.

Everyone else is instead proposing plans that would help all poor people, with a goal of narrowing the wealth gap between rich and poor. Black people tend to have less family wealth, so a larger proportion of black people would be helped by these proposals, but they're targeted based on economics, not skin color.

Maybe the closest to a race-targeted proposal is Elizabeth Warren's idea of providing targeted aid to people living in neighborhoods that were impacted by redlining. Google it if you're unfamiliar. This would tend to help neighborhoods that historically were mostly black, but the aid would go to anyone living there.

At the end of the day, I wish Dems wouldn't use the term reparations, because most people think that means "Give black people cash," and that's bad policy and really unpopular.

Right now this protest is only engaging those who are already interested in the issue.

Do you have any advertising budget to make issue ads? It's not an election year, but I feel like people are only seeing this from the news, and not during their entertainment?

Have you contacted any potential backers to get funding for a public awareness campaign?

Well it's not in the proposal now. You don't want it to happen, so why would you be upset if it got taken out? Doesn't that mean you got what you want?

First, do you understand that climate change is real and is primarily driven by human activities?

Second, if you understand that, what sort of proposal would you like to see to address that problem?