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In reply to the discussion: Democrats better embrace progressive millennials or get used to losing [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)When did that happen? I'm glad to hear they dropped the awful "A Better Deal," but "Change that Matters" isn't much better.
They need to get some more creative people in on deciding the call to action statement.
But I think the LA Times is speaking from the California viewpoint, as for pushing millennial progressives. The Dem Party has to embrace all sorts of people across a very large country. Most of them are not millennials. And many are not progressives.
The Democratic Party has a wide umbrella for many types of people, unlike the Republican Party. It needs to include all of them. If it becomes too progressive, it will lose the moderates. The moderates are the swing votes that decide close elections, along w/Independents.
What works in CA won't necessarily work in West Virginia or Pennsylvania, and vice versa.
I think they should use something in the slogan that uses the word "democracy." That is the Dem Party's strong point. It is, after all, th DEMOCRATIC Party. Dems are the governing party, the ones more respectful of democracy. Just a thought.