You can compose your own list of policy priorities if you prefer to do so. However, if you compose your own list, you will not be able to use the website's locator service to find allies whose agendas are similar to yours.
You can take advantage of this service if you select the policy options that best represent the issues you care about from this website's database of generic policy options below. If you don't see the options you're looking for, you can propose that new options be added.
In addition, if you use the policy options below, you can use the website's query service to find out about emerging trends in different parts of the country and the locator service to compare your agenda with other people's agendas and find allies anywhere in the country whose policy priorities are statistically similar to your priorities.
To make these options easy to find, they are displayed on cards in two decks of playing cards below.
You can define different agendas for different purposes and levels of government, update your agendas whenever your priorities change and archive all your prior agendas in your own personal archive for future reference.
You can publicize your policy preferences by posting your agenda or selected policy priorities on your homepage on this website for everyone to see, or for only certain people you specify.
You can email your agenda to anyone you wish, anytime.
Here's how to use the cards to create your agenda:
First, check out the eight umbrella themes below into which the policy options are divided to make them easier to find in the two decks of cards.
Deck 1
Deck 2
Livelihoods
Health & Welfare
Security
Civil & Political Rights
You can deal yourself a winning hand by choosing the cards with the policy options that are your top priorities. Your winning hand can include as many cards and options as you wish.
Just check the box below each card and all the cards and options you select will appear in your My Policy Agenda web page.
If you wish, you can go to the page and arrange your choices in numerical order to indicate which is your highest priority, starting with #1.
You will find a complete list of the policy options provided under each umbrella theme on the Key to Deck 1 and the Key to Deck 2 below.
Immediately below the keys to the decks, you will find the two decks of cards. Each card contains the title of the policy option and the textual description of the option. As you can see by comparing the options, they cover a wide range of possibilities that advocate divergent and even diametrically opposed policy choices.
Each card and policy option contains links to online information resources you may wish to consult. You can weigh the various options by clicking on the links at the bottom of each card. They connect you to a broad range of editorials, news articles, speeches, research reports, etc. analyzing the pros and cons of the options from different points of view and political ideologies.
While many of the perspectives resemble those of traditional politicians and political parties, many of them are nonpartisan or cut across party lines. This diversity gives you the opportunity to pick and choose your priorities from inside and outside the current political spectrum so that you can define your own unique policy agenda that reflects your values, meets your needs and champions the causes you support.
If you do not see the options you are looking for, you can propose that new options be added to the Joker pool of user-created wild cards below by clicking here.
You can get additional help in weighing your options by checking check out the Policy and Election Links and References on the menu above.
Once you have defined your policy agenda and can privately view it on My Policy Agenda, you can personalize it even further by adding your own ideas and comments next to the policy options you have selected. You can update your agenda and your ideas and comments anytime you wish and store your previous agenda in your archive for future reference.
You can also decide who else you want to authorize to view your agenda and where authorized persons can view it. You can restrict viewing of your My Policy Agenda web page to people and groups you designate. Or your can post the entire agenda on your personal homepage for everyone to see.
If you want to display it on your personal homepage, you can copy and paste the cards onto the page, post a link to each card, or post a link to your My Policy Agenda web page.