So much to do, but first I'd start with a platform from Bernie Sanders, and then move left.

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35. Branding doesn't matter

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How about this?

So much to do, but first I'd start with a platform from FDR, and then move left.

I'm not joking.

If we keep trying to vie for the imaginary "center" we will continue to lose. Talk to people where they are about issues we have in common - and #1 to start is health care - there's a reason Luigi resonated with so many people. It wasn't because the victim was rich, it was because he led the healthcare company that denies the most claims. It is a shame that so many people know what it's like to have serious claims denied and watch family members (or themselves) suffer.

And we need better ways to communicate - when FAUX news is playing everywhere for free that is what people are listening to. We need to figure out a way to compete with this, and it's not subscribing to 100 individual podcasts.

Better?

I never met anyone who didn't understand what Sanders was saying, or thought he was howling at the moon.

Abolition came about by a party of old men and the cause was advanced by old men and old women, by the way. The abolitionists were no doubt accused of howling at the moon by the new young generation of slaveholders.

Just a few of the more important people who were pretty old when the 13th Amendment was passed:

John Quincy Adams born 1767
Samuel Fessenden born 1784
Thomas Ewing born 1785
John Alsop King born 1788
Thaddeus Stevens born 1792
Edward Bates born 1793
Joshua Reed Giddings born 1795
'Frederick Douglass born 1795
John Gorham Palfrey born 1796
Reverdy Johnson born 1796
Sojourner Truth born 1797
John Brown born 1800
Benjamin Wade born 1800
Robert Dale Owen born 1801
William Henry Seward born 1801
Angelina Grimké born 1805
William Lloyd Garrison born 1805
Francis Gillett born 1807
Salmon Portland Chase born 1808
Abraham Lincoln born 1809
Harriet Beecher Stowe born 1811

(John Quincy Adams did not live to see it.)