What agenda would you push if you had serious/major influence in society?

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1. The gay agenda

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3. Reducing–*not* eliminating–elective abortion by first making abortion legal, accessible, and a private matter for the pregnant person. The rest of the agenda moves onto instituting comprehensive sex education, accessible birth control, shifting culture toward sex positivity and respect for body autonomy and consent, eliminating the 1950s sitcom family as the only proper definition of family, deconstructing physical use of space that forcibly separates work life from domestic life (for example, putting schools in business sectors instead of solely residential areas), adding on-site or nearby affordable child care as a standard part of employment, creating a work culture where time off to take care of personal business is not automatically considered a failing. Essentially, making abortion an option, but changing society to the extent that having a child does not mean giving up education or career trajectories or living in poverty, so the choice is a real choice between whether or not one wants to be a parent instead of choice between abortion, adoption, or hardship.

   Why do people choose abortion? Fix those problems. People will still choose abortion. But with comprehensive sex education, access to birth control, unintended pregnancies will greatly reduce. Follow that up with a genuinely family friendly society (all families, regardless of gender, including child-free families)? Abortion reduced, dignity restored to everyone involved in making a choice about having children (looking at you, child-free people who face no end of abuse for your perfectly valid choice), and reproductive freedom is a real thing.

4. I’d double-down on full abortion rights for women, and frankly ban men from weighing in on such legislation, because **fuck** an entire gender imposing their will on another gender.

   Secondly, I’d press for universal healthcare including meaningful parental leave from work, and full decriminalization of sex work.

5. Black woman’s rights. Cuz in the end everybody else’s rights will also be pushed

6. Taxing wealth not income.

7. Pro-children.

   Not pro *having* children, since childfree people having kids isn’t good for anyone, but society really needs to stop treating kids so poorly. We need schools to be well funded, we need parental childcare leave to be long, we need changing tables to be standard in all restrooms.

   Most importantly, we need to stop joking about child abuse. The #2 killer of children is homicide, and hitting kids is so common that it’s actually legal in many places. So when a grown adult jokes about punching a misbehaving child, they’re only adding onto a culture that hurts kids.

   Their mental health needs to be prioritized. Make kids feel safe. Give them places to blow off steam. Let them be loud sometimes! Educate everyone in high school about child development, so they can be kinder to the next generation of children.

8. Abortion rights. Also banning gender reveal parties for infants

9. I’ve always thought, if I could hive mind a majority of society I would have everyone do a massive scale walk off of jobs, because the US culture toward work is actually ridiculous.

   The don’t even allow you to sit when you work retail. How the hell did we let that become standard?

   I want better work conditions, actual living wages, unions, flexible time off/ paid medical leave and emotional protection in every single work place in America.

10. Space travel and worrying about ourselves.

11. The climate – and all that it entails to make significant change. Tax the hell out of the billionaires. Force manufacturers to stop with the plastic garbage. Advance global equity so poor countries aren’t polluted and deforested to supply rich countries. Get the general population to a higher level of scientific understanding. And so forth.