General Discussion

You wrote "People are hungry for bold promises."

Being honest and grounded in reality are not bad things. But that doesn't really motivate people. People are motivated by being challenged with big, bold ideas.

Democrats have this disease where we negotiate against ourselves. Let me give an example. Resolved: We should extend Medicare to people of any age by allowing those under age 65 simply to pay a premium that covers the ACTUAL COST of their age cohort (with no extra corporate profits, shareholder dividends and lavish executive salaries)

Democrats would come up with 100 reasons why this wouldn't work before the idea was stated in public.
* HHS can't handle the workload
* All the corporations would fight it
* How could we ever manage collections?
* Think of all the UHC workers that would lose their jobs
and so on.

It has literally been 60 years (JFK - Apollo or LBJ - Great Society) since Democrats had ANY big, bold ideas. The last 3 generations of Dems have mastered the art of negative thinking. It wasn't always this way. FDR was continuously on the march with big bold ideas.

We lost our way a long time ago. There are many good, smart progressives in the party today. We need to get rid of the ones who have done nothing but negative thinking for decades. They are doing no good for anybody.