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| | Some of the policies Buttigieg supports:<ref>[https://peteforamerica.com/issues] It’s time to reclaim the values that drive our policy decisions</ref> are. | | Some of the policies Buttigieg supports:<ref>[https://peteforamerica.com/issues] It’s time to reclaim the values that drive our policy decisions</ref> are. |
| | *Affordable abortion and the right to it for all women who choose to murder their child. | | *Affordable abortion and the right to it for all women who choose to murder their child. |
| | + | *Abolishing the death penalty. End mandatory minimum sentences for certain offenses. Eliminate the private prison industry. |
| | + | *Gun Control: establishing a nationwide gun licensing system. The use of "Extreme Risk Protection Orders" since "two-thirds of all gun deaths are suicides." Holding the gun industry accountable for the misuse of guns by owners. |
| | + | *Legalize marijuana and address the harmful effects of its criminalization. |
| | *The Equal Rights Amendment: Enlarge and strengthen anti-discrimination protections against gender and sexual identity-based discrimination (thus leading to criminalizing dissent; compelling businesses and churches to support what God calls an abomination). Includes "safe schools legislation." Combating those who are defined as mistreating homosexuals. Includes fighting against "the overrepresentation and mistreatment of LGBTQ people in the criminal justice system" (the higher crime rate among that demographic). Focusing on improving "the health and well-being of LGBTQ youth, parents, and families." (All of which could extend to attacking those who are considered to be harmful to the psychological well-being of such). Protecting LGBTQ asylum seekers while supporting LGBTQ human rights around the world. | | *The Equal Rights Amendment: Enlarge and strengthen anti-discrimination protections against gender and sexual identity-based discrimination (thus leading to criminalizing dissent; compelling businesses and churches to support what God calls an abomination). Includes "safe schools legislation." Combating those who are defined as mistreating homosexuals. Includes fighting against "the overrepresentation and mistreatment of LGBTQ people in the criminal justice system" (the higher crime rate among that demographic). Focusing on improving "the health and well-being of LGBTQ youth, parents, and families." (All of which could extend to attacking those who are considered to be harmful to the psychological well-being of such). Protecting LGBTQ asylum seekers while supporting LGBTQ human rights around the world. |
| | *Working with "religious leaders, tech companies, and other influencers to reduce hate and extremism in our homeland," "groups that use forms of domestic extremism." | | *Working with "religious leaders, tech companies, and other influencers to reduce hate and extremism in our homeland," "groups that use forms of domestic extremism." |
| | *Growing national service programs to foster unified community and tackle "critical national and global challenges" from "climate adaptation to supporting disinvested American communities and neighborhoods", etc. | | *Growing national service programs to foster unified community and tackle "critical national and global challenges" from "climate adaptation to supporting disinvested American communities and neighborhoods", etc. |
| − | *Gun Control: establishing a nationwide gun licensing system. The use of "Extreme Risk Protection Orders" since "two-thirds of all gun deaths are suicides." Holding the gun industry accountable for the misuse of guns by owners.
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| − | *Legalize marijuana and address the harmful effects of its criminalization.
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| − | *Abolishing the death penalty. End mandatory minimum sentences for certain offenses. Eliminate the private prison industry.
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| | *Universal health care: promoted as “Medicare for All Who Want It.” | | *Universal health care: promoted as “Medicare for All Who Want It.” |
| | *Reparations policies for Black Americans and closing the racial wealth gap "income disparity"). | | *Reparations policies for Black Americans and closing the racial wealth gap "income disparity"). |