POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[a completely inoffensive name]

This is unrelated to thread topic, but we still got 4 months to go so it's meh right now. I've been thinking of what I would promise when running for local government given the current climate of US politics and the fact I have been hopping around from purple district to purple district, following work.

The US is really in need of new ideas and while I myself identify as a Progressive or maybe a very left Neoliberal, it's been difficult to really expand my mind's horizon of what is possible besides mainly data driven, targeted neoliberal reforms. Big ideas are just as likely to get sabotaged 5-8 years down the line as they are to fail before they even get to the presidents desk. My way of thinking is perhaps Democrats and the left in general need to be more clever and pursue policies in the background that mainly improve the efficiency and outputs of government so we can change the social meme of government being naturally ineffective and wasteful. But how would I do that on a city level?

There are some ideas I have kicking around like transitioning to an LVT and repealing NIMBY laws to allow medium density, mixed residential/commercial zoning...but I am afraid whether we are at the point that any and all reform is now painted as a 'leftist' policy. For example, Republican commenters in the local papers make it clear that the expectation in the wrongful application of police force is not to rectify with any policies but to demand that people's expectations of what is proper compliance needs to shift to what the most hawkish law enforcement imagine it to be. This move of the GOP to go from a right-wing liberal party to a nationalist reactionary party has really set us up for the culture wars Fox News has been raving about for decades.