The Democratic Party is a strong governing presence in America, not a tool of corporate media.

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I wouldn't put too much stock in MSNBC's hand wringing stance about Democrats.

Too many of us just put ourselves in a reactive position. We are not what we're called. We answer to the country, not the other party.

We all have to be proactive -- we have to promote a vision for the Democratic Party that will get out America's freakin' vote.

First, a few considerations...

Consider that 70% of the country didn't vote for Trump. Consider that half of the 70% just didn't vote. Those are the people the party should poll and develop a vision with.

Consider that the party ignores its progressives. Those are the people the party should develop a vision with. If they had earlier, Bernie wouldn't have taken that wing.

Consider that the Kochs have been subsidizing and organizing a capitalist libertarian, racist, sexist, white vision of this country since Koch meshed his money with James Buchanan's vision in the mid-70's. They are moneyed, pushing a Mount Pelerin Society pro-white privilege austerity economics for decades.

But to frame the Democratic Party as in disarray by comparison unfairly contributes to more democratic discouragement from public voter registration and engagement.

Since the Republican Party is the party of maleness and whiteness, it stands to reason that everyone knows how the Democratic Party is the party of everybody else.


Right now, the Democratic Party's foundation is that unity is not uniformity. We must not allow anyone to call that "disarray" or "disorganization." The diverse mess of democratic opinion is exactly what democracy and the Democratic Party must continue to embrace -- it must embrace its progressives.


Second, here is the vision of its political self and America that I think the Democratic Party should promote -- early, often and loud to itself.


The Party is already pro-business. The party has to get billionaire investment to

1. win statehouses -- win voter districting, win the fight on gerrymandering, win the fight on Crosscheck voter oppression -- as the Koch says: Lose the courts; lose the cause.
2. win reform on immigration paths to citizenship,
3. fundraise like hell for state level people to go national,
4. revive the ERA to win equality for half the population,
5. win the future through human development -- promote upward mobility through thorough, lower to higher education attainment
6. win the Single Payer war
7. win the pro-green energy war so that Americans' landbase water and health are preserved, and Earth's people survive the fossil fuel era.

Overall, the Democratic Party can present a 10-point plan to lay out its vision (Mine above is just a start.) One that prioritizes law and democracy,
reformed prosecution,
regulated capitalism,
lock boxes up social supports from food to CHIP,
funds education and social services,
develops intelligence and
American abundance.

The Democratic Party needs to encourage the legal profession, nationwide, to believe that good law, good government does the greatest good for the greatest number, not the richest.

How to spread awareness of the Democratic Party's vision? Be consistent and timely.

1. NYT, WSJ and major newspaper full page adds.
2. Long infomercial videos across red states, stemming from revival of the 50-state strategy.
3. radio ads on the plan,
4. social media ads and memes

ANY CLEAR PLAN from Democrats is a much better vision for America than the current Republican hard scrabble bootstrapping, white supremacy, fascist vision.


Overall, the Democratic Party should publicly, informally, call itself what it already IS -- the Party of The Rest of America.