{"id":25,"date":"2025-10-31T07:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:10:14","slug":"my-political-priorities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"My political priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a two-level utilitarian (I follow Moral Partiality). The ideas\/policies I suggest below are based on my evaluation of these issues through that lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>figuring out AI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>carbon pricing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>international student exchange<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>pro liberal zoning\/transit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>high-speed-rail + autonomous vehicles + bike\/walk\/urban infra<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>election reform (rcv, proportional)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>constitutional\/government reform.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>making sure fascism is impossible<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>getting rid of senate and electoral college and 2nd amendment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>unfucking america? civics education? teaching why the nazis believed what they did<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>internet accountability\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Middleware?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IDs?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>journalist certification (china?, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FcxmJqDySPY\">destiny<\/a>), disclosure of income<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ban all algorithms (destiny, prob bad idea)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>nationalized healthcare<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>nationalized rail (japan JR style)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>managing social security, population longevity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>global citizenship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FIX THE GRID. build more transmission, pave the way for electrification<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>social security<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>credit card debt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>getting rid of interchange fees, pix, monopoly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>banning crypto. (maybe not, banning shit is tough)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ban congressional stock trading, prediction market trading<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ban election, political prediction markets because they act as assassination markets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ban sports gambling (leads to insiding that is impossible to prevent, addictive\/bankrupts people)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ensure independent agencies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ban political earmarking \/ pork barrelling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>make long term growth policies possible. ensure agencies remain independent and full of experts. put more decision making into the hand of agencies than congress. more of a technocracy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>dealing with single use plastic waste<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>eliminating political revolving doors\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>revolving door between defense officials and military industrial complex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corporate liability death penalty maybe?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proportional punishment\/fees. Day fees.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>public income tax records like norway. (everyone sees how much everyone makes and is worth)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/share\/7d44a4a527b5\">stopping poison pills in legislation<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a two-level utilitarian (I follow Moral Partiality). The ideas\/policies I suggest below are based on my evaluation of these issues through that lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sethdeegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}