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GreenHorizons

United States23410 Posts

2 hours ago

#106221

Basically everyone agrees Democrats could be more progressive and that would be better for humanity. Besides Mamdani, have progressives among Democrats been making any progress on that since the 2024 election?

Are there progressives poised to replace older establishment types, or notable shifts to supporting significantly more progressive policy by entrenched establishment types?

ChristianS

United States3219 Posts

2 hours ago

#106222

The thread’s slowed down a bit, so how about this: I have a hare-brained scheme, maybe you guys can tell me why it’s a bad idea (or offer improvements!).

Some blue state or states (CA is the obvious choice) create an agency dedicated to combatting illegal overreach by federal agents. It has three arms:

Data collection: Tracking activity by federal agents (ICE, FBI, DEA, etc.) and publishing the information for public consumption.
Legal: Suing in court when feds break the law, to get injunctions, TROs, or even arrest warrants in place as rapidly as possible.
Enforcement: If/when the feds are breaking an injunction/TRO, agents enforce those orders and arrest those responsible.

They would have jurisdiction over federal activity within their state, or they could possibly be deployed to other states with each state’s consent. No jurisdiction over charging private citizens (except maybe if private citizens are being recruited by feds for illegal activity).

There are existing institutions that serve some of these purposes (journalists, ACLU, ICEblock) but this would be resourced by (in CA’s case) the largest tax base in the country, requires only state-level action to exist, and would have full legal authority to actually *enforce* the law once feds are breaking the law.

The right will cry about blue states defending criminals or whatever, of course, but at least you get to throw all their states-rights, fear-the-government, “I want a federal government small enough I could drown it in a bathtub” rhetoric back at them. And anyway who cares if they whine, they have no authority to prevent it.

Thoughts?

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