Things you think you country needs to improve

[Amarok]

I imagine we all love or at least like the country we live in. But like everything else no nation is perfect. So what do you think needs fixing for my own country  10 things come to mind

1. Honor our fucking treaties with the native we promised them equality and justice we have failed them in both . and no this isn't "white guilt " because this isn't something of long ago. It's something going on now. And yes modern Canadians are responsible because we allow it to continue at our own peril.

2. We need a national drug strategy too many are doing without critical drugs and the provinces have proven there up to the job

3. Fix our military infrastructure or don't have a military . We have some of the best soldiers sailors and  pilots in the world. But we force them to use out dated and often impropriate equipment that puts them in needless danger .Fix it or we don't go off fighting till we do.  

4. We need to fix the RCMP (Mounties to non Canadians) For too long the RCMP has been black box infamy everything from sexual harassment .To mass abuse of people in custody. To Entrapment of Muslim youths. It's time to start opening the box (though worry about what we might find)

5.We need a national Addiction strategy many provinces have thought up effective solutions to the growing opioid crisis .It's time to nationalize it quickly.

6.Fix the infrastructure. We are 30 years behind

7. Fix mass transit were 40 years behind  

8. Reform the senate stop making either the place you stash your cronies or the pit you bury you embarrassments.

9. Electoral reform  and I'm not saying that because it would mean NDP would have a real shot at becoming the government

10. Stop sucking big oils cock during the 8 years of the Harper government I didn't know were the oil lobby began and the government began . And no I don't care if Alberta cries western alienation. The PMO is not your spokesman  . And yes for decades liberals did this with Quebec . It wasn't right then it's Isn't right now.

[Alex K]

Germany has ways to go to make it even easier for people to raise children and have jobs if we don't want to go extinct. There are still too many assholes who think children are a nuisance and women don't need to work. Wife and I have pretty perfect conditions so I'm not complaining about my own situation, but we were lucky and have great employers, by far not everyone is so lucky.

[Jesster]

Oh, I was expecting this to be about country music. My answer would have been "it's irredeemable at this point" in that case.

As far as my country (the USA), I think we need to fix the problems with our two-party system in one fashion or another. It's pushing us to extremes that is frightening people on both sides into making horrible, irrational decisions. Luckily, I think we have a solid foundation to build on if we only had the right people in place to act on it.

That's just the political end, of course. We also need to get on the metric system. Seriously people, figure it out. It's really simple.

[abaris]

The politicians of the mainstream parties not striving to be more rightwing than the rightwingers. That's about all. Right now every party strives to be more inhumane to crawl into the asses of the nationalist crowd. The Green party and the Liberals (not to be mistaken for the American word) are the only ones left to vote for if one isn't in the game of disgusting.

[Aristocatt]

For the US:
Time travel funding to unfuck everything.

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I think the best place to start would be providing solar technology and the necessary technology for resource extraction back 100 years.


I know you were all thinking that I was hinting at preventing Turmp!


Edit: For this post specifically I really wish they weren't collapsed into one post.

[Alex K]

The politicians of the mainstream parties not striving to be more rightwing than the rightwingers. That's about all. Right now every party strives to be more inhumane to crawl into the asses of the nationalist crowd. The Green party and the Liberals (not to be mistaken for the American word) are the only ones left to vote for if one isn't in the game of disgusting.

I hear the AfD is losing some ground in the polls. I hope that's not just wishful thinking...

[abaris]

I hear the AfD is losing some ground in the polls. I hope that's not just wishful thinking...

Thanks to Schulz, as it seems. At least verbally rolling back on the Agenda.

[Alex K]

I hear the AfD is losing some ground in the polls. I hope that's not just wishful thinking...

Thanks to Schulz, as it seems. At least verbally rolling back on the Agenda.

Yes, indeed. My explanation is that the SPD has been headed by so spectacularly unlikable characters since forever, that them simply nominating a guy who's pretty nice, gets you this kind of overwhelming reaction. Maybe they were in it for some kind of long con, and Sigmar Gabriel was just a joke...

[account_inactive]

Who's likely to win the German election then?

It obviously won't be the AfD or the other party that I forgot the name of.

[Alex K]

Who's likely to win the German election then?

It obviously won't be the AfD or the other party that I forgot the name of.

It's not an election for a president, but for parties who can then form coalitions, so I guess as always Angela Merkel's CDU or the SPD will get the most votes but often not enough to govern alone. The AfD might get an appreciable percentage (but nowhere near a majority) and will become part of the opposition in parliament because none of the other parties will cooperate with them. Both the SPD and CDU will then try to find an ally among the other parties to form a government, and if that doesn't work the CDU and SPD will form a "big coalition". The big question is whether Schulz's popularity will put and end to the SPD's vale of tears they've been in for the last decade and boost their numbers enough to enable them to become part of a strong majority e.g. with the green party, or alone, and dethrone Angie. I still don't believe it will happen, but at least they have a chance.