All concerned Democrats need to read this:
http://www.3nov.com/theses.html
as well as the "November 3rd" blog: www.3nov.com
Excerpts
"Insanity is continuing to do the same things over and over again and expecting a different result.
I. The 2004 presidential election was lost not by John Kerry over the last several months but by the Democratic Party over the last serveral decades. Democrats have lost control of all three branches of government for the forseeable future. We are now a minority party.
V. The obsession with denouncing the radical conservative project as a "lie" has become a useful substitute for vision.
VII. American is not now, and never was, simply "the economy, stupid." What the American people want is a deeper sense of personal meaning, a national mission, and honor in times of fear.
X. Democratic candidates will continue to lose as long as they treat Americans as rational actors who vote their "self-interest" after weighing competing offers for health care, jobs, and security.
XVII. The progressive vision must be a direct challenge to fundamentalism in all of its forms: political, religious and economic. It must match fundamentalism's power without replicating its authoritarianism. It must appeal to the values of liberty, equality, community, justice, unconditional love, shared prosperity, and ecological restoration, among many others."
You get the idea. Highly recommended website. And approach.