Lobbying is vital for informed government. It is lobbying groups that make the case for clean water, hazard disposal, and police reform.
GRE, widely recognized as a high quality standardized test and used for many graduate program admission, uses multiple choice. There are many issues with education in United States, but I don't think you've identified the right one.2. Comprehensive education reform: standardized testing goes out the window, alongside multiple choice quizzes and no child left behind. The SAT's are now a fully written exam, where you have to know the subject instead of just guessing the answer. Colleges are no longer allowed to pick and choose and must accept students on academic performance alone. Advance the curricula for each grade by several years. Right now 6th grade mathematics in the US is the equivalent of 4th grade mathematics in Romania. Not good.
I think the media is "fine", and dare I say, your criticisms stem from your own ideological lens than any intrinsic problem.4. Force the media to present all reasonable points of view with a news story not just left or right. The divide in present American society was accused almost exclusively by the media promoting and pushing partisanship. The American public arena has become an echo chamber for Fox News and CBS fans where everybody is talking but nobody is listening to the arguments from the other side.
Currently, private insurance networks are tied to different provider networks. What you're suggesting to do isn't impossible, but it is a brute force hammer that would bankrupt industries and put tens of thousands of people out of work. Biden's plan is essentially an expansion of ACA. While healthcare reform is sorely needed, you need to keep in mind that there are human costs to any reform. A rash policy can cause far more economic and health damage than benefits.6. Nationalized healthcare insurance. Instead of paying monthly premiums to eye gouging insurance companies that do their best to dump you the moment you get sick, you will pay a monthly premium to a federal run institution. Anybody who insured can go to any hospital anywhere in the country. People who do not want to be part of the public insurance scheme can opt out and continue to pay premiums to private companies, however they will be limited to privately run hospitals in turn.
This is not entirely accurate. Swing states often change.7. Reform the electoral system. Elections need to be based on popular vote alone. Right now 3 states deter mine the result for the entire country, and you can mathematically win the election with only 39% of the popular vote due to the electoral college system. That is not fair. That is not acceptable.
This is a bad idea, and if you want a serious discussion on the topic of economics, I'm more than happy to do that, but your simplistic and broad suggestion would do far more damage than it prevents.8. Comprehensive anti-trust laws. Major corporations are no longer able to own other major corporations. Each company must have one and only domain of work. If you make cartoons, you have no business also making computer parts or providing internet services. Any corporation that exceeds a flat revenue ceiling for 3 years in a row or 6 years of the previous 10 gets broken up into two distinct entities.
On the contrary. Lack of a civics class is one of the reasons so many are uneducated about politics.10. Ban politics from classrooms. If it's math class talk about math not about Suzi's former boy parts or Biden's dementia.
It's called Unions. And history has shown us that neither public sector unions, nor government monopolies on hiring and vetting, produce ideal results. Instead of being held hostage to a government Gestapo that puts an approval stamp on a teacher's credentials, we are now held hostage to a teacher's union that makes no distinction between administrators who make 6 figures, and public school teachers in Missouri who make 4, while crying about bad pay for teachers.11. Unified teacher training and vetting. This can also extend to teachers. A teacher from Dumpstown West Hampshire should get the same training and possibilities as a teacher from Los Angeles. People should not be allowed to teach without graduating a 1-2 year pedagogical training course.
No thanks. There is a vetting service, and it's calling hiring. If there is a "bad apple", organizations should take responsibility instead of pretending that we can filter out "undesirables" through some kind of fool-proof filtering service. The things that people are few up with, is lack of accountability, not instances of bad teachers, bad cops, or bad workers.12. Same as 11 but for public servants.