It's way past time we tried offense. Personally I am sick of fighting about their issues, on the field they chose with rules of engagement subject to their whims.
Let's take the fight to them. Folks like Bernie Sanders and (at times) Elizabeth Warren have begun. We need more. Much more. All the time at every opportunity, again and again and again. There's much to learn from their persistence.
What I'd like to propose here is a redefinition of the message. No more polite correctness. In their face is where we need to be in the harshest most brutal way feasible.
I'm tired of the 'Plutocracy' and the 'Oligarchy' as the eyes glaze over and our pinheaded side consumes us.
Let's call it what it is; Soft Fascism
The intersection of government and business for the benefit of the elite at the detriment of the rest.
Play it as they would. As a Zero Sum game.
Every dollar that goes to a corporate deduction or a mining permit or a coal ash dump is money taken directly out of the mouths of our hungry children.
Every dollar that goes to development of a new weapons system is a dollar closer to a collapsed bridge in Ohio.
Governors who have blocked Medicaid expansion are the Death Panels and have killed 17,000 Americans this year alone.
Every $100 in insurance company profits is a doctor visit someone desperately needs.
Every 1% of student loan interest is a lost opportunity to build our future.
Millions of jobs are being lost by not investing in renewable energy and a smart grid.
Our businesses (wink, wink) require a cheap, fast, fair and reliable internet to compete globally.
Shale oil & tar sands deposits are our emergency reserves and should stay in the ground (wink wink) for future generations.
We need a platform of non-negotiable policies
We need our litmus test - our minimal list of qualifying policy positions
The party has let us down over & over with triangulation and over-thinking. Playing games and hedging is what happened last month. Try Grimes or Landreau to start. I don't pay any attention to the emails or proposals from the powers that be at the DNC, DSCC, etc.,etc. I don't hear clear policy.
Tell me again how I should know who the next president will be 2 years out????
As of now the Dims are just the loyal opposition, the useful idiots, the Washington Generals. hehe
Why we let any of these cretans EVER control the conversation with mendacity and twisted logic is beyond me. We have the facts. That should be enough.
I long for the day when one of these RW pundit tools is challenged to explain how we are not living in a Fascist state.