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One of the primary duties of government is to ensure everyone can lead dignified, healthy, and fulfilling lives. We value love, commitment, stability, and the nurturing of all family members. We believe we are all equal regardless of race, color, class, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, occupation, national origin, disabilities, appearance, and political beliefs. We support marriage equality for all couples. We will work to ensure basic civil liberties are forever preserved.
Personal moral, religious, and medical decisions should be left up to the competent individual. We believe in freedom of reproductive choice, family planning, and the individual’s right to choose death with dignity including physician‐assisted end‐of‐life. Everyone has the right to obtain properly and legally prescribed medications from any licensed pharmacy on a timely basis. Funding for stem‐cell research should be supported on its scientific merits.
Access to affordable, quality healthcare is a right. The best solution to our national health care crisis is a single‐payer system. Such a system must provide universal access for individuals of all ages, promote preventive measures, provide medications and therapy, and cover all physical and mental illnesses equally. Until that system is available, we support broader coverage and increased funding for the current healthcare programs on local, state and national levels, including BadgerCare, Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Affordable Care Act.
We are the party of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are a diverse people, and we celebrate our differences. Those differences are a source of our strength. Everyone must have an equal opportunity to succeed, an equal voice in government, and equal treatment under the law. We respect the religious liberties of all people and welcome everyone. It is vital that the right to choose beliefs and philosophies remain intact. We must observe the separation between government and religion.
We believe Black lives matter. We condemn all forms of anti‐Asian sentiment and violence.
Marginalized groups face formidable challenges including oppression, voter suppression, and inadequate access to nutritious food, healthcare, education, employment, and housing. We shall work to eliminate these forms of discrimination.
We shall pursue legislation and cultural changes that end racial and ethnic profiling, respect Indigenous Nations’ sovereignty, include culturally responsive instruction on marginalized communities’ histories, and ensure equality among all genders. We shall work for qualified representation at all levels of government that reflects our nation’s diversity.
Access to accurate information and a diversity of viewpoints are essential to empowerment. The broadcast spectrum belongs to all citizens. We will work to ensure diverse local ownership of media outlets. We support public broadcasting and community‐owned media outlets. We support free and equal access to news media for all candidates for public office.
