A NEW BEGINNING (No, not another Star Wars movie title)

There needs to be a list of what a Biden administration with at least a 50-50 senate needs to do, starting day 1, and lasting 90 days (3 months). Because history tells us that America as a country has ADHD and cannot concentrate, agree on anything, or hold a purpose for any longer than that. Actually, 10 days would be better, but that amount of time will be necessary just for the incoming Democratic Senate chairs to find where the outgoing Republican asswipes (I'm talking to you, retired Lindsey Graham) hid the gavels, and the Biden Administration will need to find out where the Trump staffers, clutching their newly granted pardons, hid everything they couldn't actually destroy.

Here's my short list:

(1) Campaign finance reform: outlaw all private contributions, all solicitations for private contributions as bribes or solicitations of bribes, and publicly finance every federal campaign, requiring all holders of FCC licenses to provide a certain amount of time within 90 days of every election free of charge as a public interest.

(2) Defang all dark money by requiring every attack ad or every ad promoting a candidate to be first previewed by the attackee or opposing candidate, who then can film a responsive ad, twice as long, that will air, free of charge, immediately after every airing of the attack/promoting ad. So when the dark billionaires try to attack Joe Biden with blatant lies (he wants to kill all of your children! Defund police and bring on the purge! He is in a coma and is controlled by dangerous anarchists!) Joe can calmly appear in a response ad, be sane, and dispell the lies before they can infect the body politic.

(3) Eliminate the filibuster in the Senate and all Senatorial "courtesy" that allows a single senator to block or delay legislation- something that exists nowhere in the House, but which still manages to function. This will avoid the repeat of the Republican minority managing to delay or block every meaningful attempt by the Obama Administration.

NOTE: the foregoing are all "process" legislation or rules that will allow the following to move forward:

(4) A voting rights act. Restore Section 5 of the voting rights act, which required jurisdictions from historically segregated States or jurisdictions to "preclear" changes in voting with the Justice Department, from laws and rules great and small, from State laws purging voting lists and affecting the abilities of convicted felons to vote (as in Florida, where the voters approved a referendum to restore their voting rights, immediately blocked by the States's legislature which required them to pay back all fines in full before they could vote) to eliminating precincts. This time, make it nationwide. This law was struck down in a 2013 Supreme Court case, Shelby v. Holder, on the dubious (and manifestly incorrect) grounds that a new age had dawned and State sponsored discrimination was a thing of the dark past- a ruling immediately shown to be wrong only days later when the State of Texas enacted voter ID legislation intended to suppress minority voting rights, and in the months and years to come as numerous other jurisdictions did everything possible to suppress minority voters.

(5) Immediately make Medicare available to every person under 65 who wants to sign up- but at a cost equal to the incremental cost to the United States Treasury, so that it's revenue neutral. Slowly phase in subsidies for persons of lower income to increase participation, funding those subsidies in part with....

(6) A "fair tax" act that will require the wealthy to pay taxes on their capital gains, dividends, and interest, for Medicare and Social Security (currently exempt) and on a restoration of the estate tax to estates valued over one million dollars and...

(7) A restoration of the taxes on the wealthy that were rolled back in the Republican tax breaks for the super rich act of 2018.

(8) A civil rights act that will eliminate the concept of qualified immunity and which will allow those whose civil rights were deprived and who were deliberately injured or through gross negligence or reckless conduct under color of State law by any actor- including judges, district attorneys, and every other actor, but not personally against them but against the entity which employs them.