- The goal of Woke 2 is to establish social equality, achieve material and spiritual progress, and construct a vibrant civic life for the people.
- Defund the fire department.
- Abolish needle exchanges, and encourage smoking fentanyl instead—it’s much safer.
- Art museum board members should prostrate themselves and apologize for their collections weekly; the rest of us are allowed to not think about it.
- Implement Police 2. Every year, the citizens vote to divide the policing budget between Police 1 and 2 depending on who's been doing their job and respecting people's rights.
- We need a Serano-style dissolution of binaries more than a Woke 1-style intensification of them.
- Access to Ozempic should be massively expanded.
- Access to Methadone should be massively expanded.
- Access to Tylenol should be massively curtailed.
- People should be able to do what they want to their bodies, including injecting hormones to change their gender. Even if it’s just for fun.
- Happy pride but some of the new flags are kinda ugly.
- Comic book people, and adults who read young adult novels, have shown over the last decade that they are incapable of being responsible members of a coalition. They are like babies; they are not welcome in Woke 2.
- Property must be democratically contestable. A world where fossil fuels stay in the ground is richer, because the negative externalities are greater than the value provided by burning the fuel. The left should be willing to say: “If you want a world that is wealthy, you should destroy fossil fuel infrastructure.”
- IE—the left is a kind of vigilante short-fund destroying the net-welfare-negative business models—coal plants, Turbotax, land title insurers, etc—and redistributing the surplus to the world.
- Uber did the world a favor by destroying the exploitative taxi medallion monopoly. Absentee medallionlords extracted rent from immigrant taxi drivers, forcing them to work 17 hour shifts, often for a loss. Uber remains exploitative. But their cut is smaller, the market is bigger, and at least some proceeds go to the efficiency of the system.
- Free public transit, but only for the rich.
- Legalize direct auto sales, and we can destroy the "dealership owner class," the furthest right social bloc in the country.
- Mandatory labelling for nepo babies. This includes disclosure requirements for legacy admissions.
- Elementary schools should have classes on comparative phonology, so people can pronounce names and words from other cultures.
- Abolish single family zoning. But also, abolish commercial zoning. Home businesses and living in an office are both radical praxis now.
- It’s fascist that you can’t operate a restaurant out of your apartment.
- Legalize korean sunscreen.
- There was a deviant Woke 1 tendency to be suspicious of interracial marriage. Woke 2 is suspicious of people married to people of the same race instead.
- National payment processing network run by USPS.
- Voting age to 16 but only for local elections.
- A CDL should be required to drive a large pickup truck or SUV.
- Individuals liable for environmental crimes should be sentenced to exposure to the materials they polluted with.
- Having ever made a land acknowledgement is retroactively considered to have deeded the land to local native groups.
- We need public access to surveillance cameras.
- There must be a defense of abortion rights that is ready for artificial wombs—IE, it must not rest on “viability of the fetus.”
- If you live outside activist spaces, for better and worse, Woke 1 is over. It is no longer possible to be cancelled without having committed at least two felonies. If you still feel victimized by Woke 1 we must recommend, unfortunately, that you go to therapy about it.
- IE—Woke 1 is our generation’s Vietnam: some of the population was traumatized by it and will spend the rest of their lives acting like they’re still there.
- Public access TV funding should be quadrupled, and dedicated mostly to "day in the life" TikToks of midlevel bureaucrats.
- Woke 2 does not pick niche semantic or ideological battles on matters of basic moral decency.
- The tax benefits of marriage should decrease with age gap.
- Performers in pornographic films must have the right to bring a representative to the set, with the right to stop a scene at any time.
- “Unconscious bias” is out, promoting intergroup contact is in.
- Collecting statistics for diversity and inclusion in a statistically defensible way should generally fall under safe harbor provisions.
- We must speak about Israel’s actions in Gaza as we do any other genocide.
- The justice system is plagued by a dozen interlocked crises. These are intensified by the total lack of visibility into it; to improve it, we must seek truth from facts.
- Public defender offices should have the ability to bring credibility hearings to disbar police officers who habitually lie in court.
- Ranked Choice Voting has already won. It’s to make Liquid Democracy real.
- Cigarettes should be illegal.
- Disposable vapes should be illegal.
- Mango Juul pods should be brought back.
- High quality, rapid-turnover air filtration in schools and cafeterias will improve educational outcomes and prevent conflict over the smell of food
- Interacting with the state should feel easy and light. But the state should be powerful.
- Woke 2 is about desegregation.
- The problem with Woke 1 isn’t that it “went too far”—it’s that its tactics stalled out before it was able to achieve its ends.
- The point of Woke 2 is, again—social equality, and material and spiritual progress. When a tactic or an aim no longer serves those goals, it is not Woke 2. Woke 2 is always on the move.