Dave Raver (@davesraves)

Hi, Joe, nice to meet you. You have great points, and I would have been completely behind you before what I call the "strangenesses" that started in 2020, as a former antiwar leftie. Now I'm an antiwar sometimes leftie, sometimes rightie. I guess you think that the only problem we have with government is corporate influence, given your support for Medicare for All, public housing, public schools, etc. But remove the corporate influence, and you will still have an entity (government) upon which you want to depend and which can take away those benefits whenever they feel like it. If not for a corporate master, then maybe just for kicks. Even the first wish in your list, breaking up the media, takes an act of the most influenced and captured entity, Congress. Forget about voting reform: we must convince absolutely everybody not to vote at all or only to vote for third party underdogs. Then you can push forward with your wishes. As to the No Wars bullet, let's go all the way back to Washington, who only reiterated what the Constitution says: no foreign entanglements. I'm not sure what you mean by "cooperation," but if that includes alliances, I say no. All we should be doing is trading and otherwise leaving everyone alone.