A BEGINNING LIST FOR AFTER THIS HORROR IS OVER

1.  Over incarceration.

"In a 2016 report, the Brennan Center found that nearly 40 percent of the U.S. prison population is incarcerated without a compelling public safety rationale. Over-incarceration harms incarcerated people and their communities and also imposes enormous financial costs to the general public. One solution is to consider alternatives to prison, such as probation, treatment, or community service."  https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/heres-how-2020-candidates-can-tackle-mass-incarceration

2.  Gaming the rule of law. How do we persuade a generation that grew up on cyber-gaming that the point of being a lawyer is not finding loopholes, but maintaining the original goal?

3.  Planetary monitoring of "money" in any form, uber-bookkeeping.  Include the management of alternatives to money like precious substances, art, real estate, sex, and "owning" people through devices.

4.  Mandatory high school level courses, year long, one on citizenship and the other on money management.  Certification required for teaching these courses.

5.  International strategies for managing massive demographic change and movement compelled by politics, climate, famine, and disease.  

6.  Universal enrolment for voting when graduating from high school, getting a driver's license. 

7.  Rethinking the strategies of copyright and trademarks, intellectual property in general, particularly in regard to technology and esp. medicines.

8.  Mental competence tests for all those seeking office, particularly at the national level.

9.  Ethical rules tightened in regard to lawyers, including the laws regarding their handling of estates.  These laws should be written by experts who are NOT lawyers to keep them from creating more self-serving laws.

10.  The United States divided into ecological regions with laws and economics related to the resources and climate of that area.  If necessary, state boundaries should be altered to fit and state law should give the region priority.

11.  Rethink election security.  Ideas at:  https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2019_07_EACFunding%20Report_1Pager_V2%5B2%5D.pdf.  Do not let it rest on technology requiring wealth, like voting by computer.

12.  Encourage the reading of sci-fi that bases speculation on various ways of organizing society instead of old Brit empire books or New England grim scolding.  Do some serious and public thinking about the plethora of crime and frontier media tales that feed an appetite for ever more extreme violence.   https://www.natcult.net/journal/issue-5/

13.  Inquiry into food production, distribution, and consumption as an element of the economy.  Goals should be stability and minimum maintenance for individuals, but esp families, not necessarily genetically related to each other.  Stakeholders must include farmers, the poor, and those who monitor foods that are harmful for some people, like peanuts or gluten.

14.  Support and protect those who organize into small (less than a hundred people?) groups modeled on monasticism, not necessarily religious, who wish to attach to each other and help others.  Some may organize around tasks, like the protection of children or cooking or various gardening techniques.

15. Health insurance for all.  Rethinking the medical provisions we have now, which are often profit-based, and depend upon a secondary layer of people called "physician assistant"  and the like, often insufficiently educated and over-utilized for the convenience of doctors.

This is an open list.  Add more at will. 

7-19:  https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/trump-hidden-powers
Trump and his "lawyers" have already found many "land mines" that damage whole categories of people.