Americans would like to breathe air that isn’t giving their kids asthma and shortening everybody’s lives. 

You’d like the option of a clean, cheap electric car that never has to visit a gas station, the kind of thing that saves you money at the pump and doesn’t cook the planet your grandchildren have to live on. 

Most of us would like to drink a glass of tap water without wondering about the forever chemicals that now even show up in the blood of newborn babies. 

Anybody who’s stood at a pharmacy counter would like their medicine to cost what it costs in every other wealthy country instead of three or four times as much. 

Working families would like health coverage they can afford and actually keep

We’d all like the government to keep funding the research that cures cancers and catches the next pandemic before it becomes one. 

Anybody with an aging parent would like to know the nursing home has enough staff on the floor to answer the call button before dawn. 

The people who cut and pack our meat would like to keep all ten of their fingers, and their children would like to stay out of the slaughterhouse. 

 the folks in every town along the tracks would like the trains rolling through to be a little bit safer. 

A person working full time would like to earn enough to cover the rent. 

Workers would like a fair shot at forming a union without getting fired for trying. 

Young people would like an education that doesn’t come with a mortgage-sized debt hanging over them for the next thirty years. 

Regular taxpayers would like the morbidly rich to chip in something close to their fair share. 

People who paid into Social Security their entire working lives would like it to be there, with the phone answered by an actual human being, when they finally retire. 

A young person with a good idea would like to start a small, local business without a trillion dollar monopoly crushing them like a bug. 

Ordinary investors would like a financial cop on the beat to guard against the next Ponzi scheme and the next collapse that wipes out their savings. 

You’d like some say over whether artificial intelligence takes your job, tracks your every move, and answers to nobody at all. 

We’d like our national forests and Arctic refuges to still be standing for our grandchildren. 

Parents would like every kid, not just the wealthy ones, to have a good public school right down the street. 

Americans once had a public broadcasting system and a genuine range of voices on the radio dial. 

This is supposed to be a country where the government doesn’t get to pick your religion for you. Women would like to make their own decisions about their own bodies, right down to whether and when to build a family through something like IVF. 

Every American would like a fair shot in business and in the military based on what they can actually do, not on who they happen to know or the color of their skin. 

Underneath every last one of these sits a single machine. Americans would like their policies decided by voters, by actual human beings casting actual ballots, and not by whoever writes the fattest check.