In Reply to: That's a wish list after my own heart. But it's just a wishlist posted by sprinter on April 08, 2024 at 15:00:05
a no-no, a non-starter up until Bernie Sanders started talking about it. Sure, you're gonna tell me, but where has that gotten him? Admittedly not far, but this is no longer considered an insane idea that is way out there at some extreme. There are a lot of people, especially young people who accept that as a legitimate point of view.
We'll never get there if we continue to lead from behind, i.e., wait for a point of view to be adopted by a lot of people before we adopt it.
Those are the pools to draw from. I would like the Democratic Party to put on their big boy or big girl pants and start pushing for at least some of those ideas and start mainstreaming them through any strategy that makes sense. Maybe have progressives start the conversation, let them saturate the airwaves for a while, then get your more establishment type to start joining in and normalizing the discourse. Then have Uncle Joe make comments like "you know, we ought to take a serious look at these proposals". It's not that hard. Where the party fails is not at the strategy end, IMO. It's at the courage and conviction end. After all these years, the party is still trying to be the kinder version of the old, traditional Republican Party, IMHO.
The funny thing is, the younger generation who the Democratic Party would be well advised to keep in their coalition are quite hip to these ideas and a good bunch of them would be endorsing them fully.