Progressive Politics

Hey, before I tear this down and get hated on for it, let me just say that I appreciate your spirit. You are trying to do something, and that alone instantly elevates you above 95% of the rest of the US population.

My opinion on this/your party is that it seems very haphazard. The platform basically describes the Democrats and the DNC, so how is the Bull Moose Party different? Even your more "liberal" demands such as ranked choice voting, abolishing money in politics and corporate tax reforms are all things Democrats every now and then dangle as a carrot in front of us. You now might be tempted to say "Yes, but WE mean it!". I believe you, but that still leaves the question "how"?

How would you stop the "ultra wealthy" from simply leaving the country and taking their businesses and wealth with them after you try to raise their taxes? You can argue that the country doesn't need them, but then how do you pay for the extremely costly policy ideas you describe further down, such as making higher education "free"? How do you build a high speed railway, and how would you convince the individual states to do it? How do you get the land necessary to build this railway? What if it runs through reservations or natural protected areas? And are we not doing very heavy AI research investments already? Who would you give those AI research investments to? Because right now there are only 3 companies in the US with the infrastructure of actually doing that research, and those are: Microsoft, Meta and the company of Elon Musk. All three of those will flee the country if you present them with an increased tax bill, if not send assassins after you.

It's nice that you outright ban "wars of aggression", but no one has ever run on a platform of "let's do more wars". Everyone says they will only "defend" themselves. In fact humanity has never fought a war of simple aggression ever since antiquity. All aggressors insist it's only a defense and noble cause, from Putin, to Bush, to Hitler. To put that in practice, how would you deal with Russia right now if your party was in charge and had full control? You would quickly find that armed conflict is inevitable, and thus you would eventually break your promise of "no wars of aggression" to your constituents.

Even something as straight-forward and morally upright such as "restoring relations with our long term allies" requires at this point a serious explanation HOW the Bull Moose Party would achieve this. No one trusts the US anymore because the government makes a 180 turn every 4 to 8 years. Could you promise other countries the US will never have someone like Trump in charge again? And now that Europe is getting independent and Canada looks to Asia and Europe as well, why would they ever want to come back?

Eh, you get the idea. In short, the platform is too broad, not detailed at all, seems like a daydream and personally I'm missing any creativity and good ideas in there that differentiate you from the DNC. Put in something interesting like "we bring back gladiator arena games to the death and livestream them on Netflix" or "people dressing up as Darth Vader on May 4th get a 1% tax cut next season" (half-joking of course).

Lastly, Discord is trash. You need a viable, respectable forum, that is used by more people than a heavily male skewed early-zoomer audience for gaming and shitposting. Back to the drawing board, write a manifesto on WHAT you want to achieve and HOW you plan on achieving each point and WHY. Refrain from using empty and useless statements such as "we believe in the pursuit of happiness". Elon Musk also believes that, and he pursues his happiness by becoming the Kaiser of the American Reich. I sound harsh and demoralizing, but that's because I like what you are trying to do. If I thought it was shit, I would have just memed on you and moved on instead of writing a blog.