You are absolutely correct that keeping the anger bipartisan and focused - best example is “It’s the economy stupid!” - will make sure real change happens instead of partisan bickering.
I see two paths for Dems: 1) they can broaden the tent, compete everywhere and let local candidates compete on local issues/perspectives, or 2) shift futher to the progressive left hoping people come with you. The former will result in a huge blue tsunami and reorient what the Democratic Party stands for while the latter is just more of the same and a recipie for disaster.
FDR and JFK would be aghast at what passes for policy in their beloved Democratic Party. Although both were upper class they understood that victory for their party depended on working class voters. Current party leaders distain the “deplorable” and “racist” members of the working class.
A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester. Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk or the fetus is not viable.
Keep a concern for climate change and grow nuclear power. Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines. Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians in a futile attempt to compensate for past discrimination against women and blacks. Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights. Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration. Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live. Dump camping in cities, shitting in the streets and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice. Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook and releasing predators back on the streets without bail to kill and maim again.
Do all of the above and they might find their way back to power.
But this is not really anything new in these communities. The politicians know that they can support these policies because at the end of the day, their constituents will vote against their own interests.
I have so many family members in Wisconsin who have done nothing but swallow the GOP agenda for decades, and they depend on the government more than anyone I know.
You are absolutely correct that keeping the anger bipartisan and focused - best example is “It’s the economy stupid!” - will make sure real change happens instead of partisan bickering.
I see two paths for Dems: 1) they can broaden the tent, compete everywhere and let local candidates compete on local issues/perspectives, or 2) shift futher to the progressive left hoping people come with you. The former will result in a huge blue tsunami and reorient what the Democratic Party stands for while the latter is just more of the same and a recipie for disaster.
FDR and JFK would be aghast at what passes for policy in their beloved Democratic Party. Although both were upper class they understood that victory for their party depended on working class voters. Current party leaders distain the “deplorable” and “racist” members of the working class.
A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester. Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk or the fetus is not viable.
Keep a concern for climate change and grow nuclear power. Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines. Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians in a futile attempt to compensate for past discrimination against women and blacks. Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights. Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration. Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live. Dump camping in cities, shitting in the streets and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice. Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook and releasing predators back on the streets without bail to kill and maim again.
Do all of the above and they might find their way back to power.
But this is not really anything new in these communities. The politicians know that they can support these policies because at the end of the day, their constituents will vote against their own interests.
I have so many family members in Wisconsin who have done nothing but swallow the GOP agenda for decades, and they depend on the government more than anyone I know.