Ajamu Baraka on VoteMatch

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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	Healthcare for all including contraception: Strongly Favors topic 1 Offer abortion services free to women at the poverty level: Strongly Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	Apply international human rights standards to the US: Strongly Favors topic 2 Beyonce's Superbowl show caricaturized & commodified blacks: Strongly Favors topic 2 Obama serves white power, not MLK's dream: Strongly Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (+5 points on Social scale)	Protect LGBTQIA+ people from discrimination: Strongly Favors topic 3 Recognize gay marriages & civil unions from abroad in visas: Strongly Favors topic 3
Strongly Opposes topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (+5 points on Social scale)	No religious oaths for public office, juries, or citizenship: Strongly Opposes topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	Thousands die each year when excluding from adequate care: Strongly Favors topic 5 Address healthcare with state role, not just market: Strongly Favors topic 5
Strongly Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-5 points on Economic scale)	Remove income cap on social security taxes: Strongly Opposes topic 6
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-5 points on Economic scale)	Treat education as a right: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Replace No Child Left Behind with professional teachers: Strongly Opposes topic 7
Strongly Opposes topic 8: Society bears cost of pollution (+5 points on Social scale)	Adopt the Precautionary Principle: Strongly Opposes topic 8 State has responsibility to ensure a clean environment: Strongly Opposes topic 8
Strongly Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+5 points on Social scale)	Police violence is symptom of broader system of oppression: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Death penalty for whites is tactic to stop black opposition: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Apply international rights against U.S. racial profiling: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Worked to abolish death penalty as human rights activist: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Abolition follows examining death penalty in a moral context: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-3 points on Economic scale)	Race-motivated mass shootings aren't about gun control: Opposes topic 10
Strongly Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Negative income tax for guaranteed basic income: Strongly Favors topic 11
Strongly Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale)	Mobilize public opinion to accept refugee flows from Syria: Strongly Favors topic 12 Don't capitulate to the forces of nativism & white supremacy: Strongly Favors topic 12 Comprehensive reform will still deny range of human rights: Strongly Favors topic 12 Obligation to respect the rights of the displaced: Strongly Favors topic 12
Strongly Opposes topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-5 points on Economic scale)	TPA & TPP: first of series of pernicious trade agreements: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Trans-Pacific Partnership, like NAFTA, loses jobs in the US: Strongly Opposes topic 13
Strongly Opposes topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (-5 points on Economic scale)	Link the domestic with international to avoid US-centrism: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Served on Amnesty International board & human rights groups: Strongly Opposes topic 14 American exceptionalism is revisionist fairy tale: Strongly Opposes topic 14
Opposes topic 15: Expand the military (+2 points on Social scale)	Close the 700+ foreign military bases: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Public opinion is manipulated to support permanent war: Strongly Favors topic 15 Militarization to fight terrorism is permanent war posture: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Congress' AUMF wages global war into infinity: Strongly Opposes topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale)	Replace Electoral College with national popular vote: Strongly Favors topic 16 Dead-end fear-mongering politics chooses lesser of 2 evils: Strongly Favors topic 16
Strongly Favors topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (+5 points on Social scale)	U.S. complicity created Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: Strongly Favors topic 17 CIA training & equipment created ISIS in Syria & Iraq: Strongly Favors topic 17 Mideast military interventions results in complete chaos: Strongly Favors topic 17 US position of continued war in Syria ignores Assad election: Strongly Favors topic 17 No one ever held accountable for US attack on Iraq: Strongly Favors topic 17 Killing Saddam & Kaddafi were arrogant white supremacism : Strongly Favors topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change: Strongly Favors topic 18 Real motivation to attack Iraq was control of Iraq's oil: Strongly Favors topic 18
Strongly Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+5 points on Social scale)	Replace drug prohibition with harm reduction: Strongly Opposes topic 19 War on drugs a guise to militarize police against minorities: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale)	Jobs agenda is meaningless in context of globalization: Strongly Favors topic 20 Fight the systematic elimination of public housing: Strongly Favors topic 20