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I'd rather focus on ripping cars out of cities, promoting mixed use zoning areas, removing regulations on food service (which is the reason small American food vendors need food trucks, instead of "street food" like the rest of the world.
The disjointed, car based, child hating society we have is a big problem.
I’m happy if the mail comes on time. I don’t think the government could properly manage these broad sweeping programs especially with radical changes to the legislative and judicial branches and elections.
Nor do I think you’d be able to get the states on board with this much radical change. Everything sounds ok on a surface level but rather than thinking pie in the sky, pragmatism would be needed on just the most important issues such as a universal health plan or education plan
Maybe abolish slavery? Perhaps actually honor treaties with indigenous people?
There's the gerrymandering thing though. When done in good faith it can give a voice to minorities. When done in bad faith... well, you've seen what happens. Point is it's a double edged sword.
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Remove daylight standard time.
Remove "drive in empty lane" language from DMV instruction.
These two things would have near universal impact on US culture.
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Abolishing corporate ownership is stupid. What does that even achieve?
If you trying to fix the housing market this is completely the wrong way to go about it. The issue is the value of the land isn't correctly valued. Things like LVT, density minimums (increasing with population growth), good rail links again with dense redevelopment near the stations.
Things like this will fix the housing market.
Unless you worried about landlords being dicks you just need better laws. Like what are you actually trying to achieve? I don't get it.
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I would love most of these to be implemented. But I wouldn't want the Senate to be merged because of separation of powers. Better to have a mandatory retirement age or term length for all politicians.
Also, I would like every law that has been and will be enacted by the Senate, that only affects the Senate and other positions of power, to be voted by the people in a popular vote. This way corruption by conflict of interest wouldn't happen so blatantly like it has in the past.
If you really think two bodies is better you can still have be proportional to people not states.