Proposing that Maduro and Guaidó share power for a couple of years and then hold new elections.

Is it morally appropriate for anyone to be a billionaire?

I agree that "Every billionaire is a policy failure", but I disagree with Ms Ocasio-Cortez about Bill Gates: he got his money by doing wrong to people (proprietary software).

Many problems that are intractable in today's conditions could be solved by spending money, but the government doesn't have money to spend on them. Why not? Too much money has gone to (1) reduced taxes for businesses and rich people and (2) spending more on the military than the next six countries together.

If we claw back the money from that, we could truly make America great again — great in its ability to do great things and make a better life. The US could also do its share of reducing greenhouse gas emissions fast.

The UK has cut the budget for protecting wildlife and ecosystems to the point where the job cannot be done.

The UK's dooH niboR government has cut the budget for cities so hard that Labour-controlled local government can only make decisions about which poor people to crush first.

In such a situation, it is a mistake to try to minimize the harm. "Working within the cruel system to make it less cruel" has the main effect of propping the system up.

Joshua Tree national park 'may take 300 years to recover' from damage done while the government shutdown left it unguarded.

However, due to global heating all the joshua trees there might die during this century.