Nothing wrong with that. At all. If only these were transient issues! Both should have been abandoned or altered long ago. We seem to be bogged down in them- like quicksand.
Excellent bucket list! And that is a really an important point. No one is going to “save” us. We could use a leader & we *desperately* need to clear out our Congress (& probably our SCOTUS) of those who have become corrupt, lost the plot, &/ or are lazy. Our Congress is just a mess! But ultimately, it is up to us. Laziness/ complacency/ passivity got us into this mess. I wonder if our country has grown too large & too “diverse” for us to be able to function as the Founders intended, though.
A vision is helpful ( to provide focus). At this point, probably someone to point people in the right direction at times, but yes- “a pen & a phone” is not the American way. (I think about how we got to this point over the last 50 years & I vacillate between wanting to scream & punch the wall or sit down in the middle of the floor & cry. It’s probably why I’m so sensitive to warnings. We should have known!)
I think that's because we've muddied and lost sight of what were supposed to have been the "bright lines" of authority that divide the spheres of government. Instead of being public policy made and enforced with consent of the governed, it's become a tug-of-war among politicians and bureaucrats to have the last word on behalf of some special interest group or another.