We The People

I have learned from reading lefty blogs. We, and the Democratic Party to which we donate money to, are a diverse lot. We're all about diversity. We stand for ever' body.

"We need people for the commercial, people who look like the Democratic Party -- workers in hard hats, moms with kids, men and women in business suits, hippies, young and old, all colors, enviro types, college professors, young women, someone in a wheelchair, etc. "

And:

"if you're the party on the outs and you say we can do better, you're going to win.He adds, if it were up to me, I'd be tougher and meaner. But you're trying to unite a diverse party.

The Dems attempt to get their shit together

We don't need a thousand page message we need a few good sound bites! We need to concentrate less on our party diversity and celebrate Party cohesiveness.

How about trying to be more about a message instead of being a political Tower of Babel? And even better, making the agenda of the party be what is important and not trying in vain to satisfying the agendas of every special interest group that falls under the democratic umbrella. Why not let the Vegans for Peace or the Left Sided Hemisphere Stroke Victims for Cleaner Water speak for them own damn selves? On their own damn time? It is not the Party's job make the agenda of every wack job special interest group that donates money to it, it's own .The RNC, however makes this work for them, why?

The Republicans have plenty of poor white trash in their followers and yet The GOP doesn't spend a lot of its advertising budget braying about how much they love POOR PEOPLE. They don't have to, they planted the seeds of their marketing strategy years ago under Reagan, they went to the churches and talked business. Democrats go to the churches today and talk diversity.
I want to see the Democratic Party identifying with people who are not destitute, I want to see the democrats stop being so damn hypercritical and do ads featuring doctors and lawyers and people with money saying "I Am a Democrat". The constant reliance on the poor and disenfranchised hasn't helped anybody become less poor and more franchised. It's easy for the GOP to look down on the democrats and send that message to their masses "that the Democratic Party is made up of the guy who panhandles from you at the corner and the unwed mother who makes the line at the grocery take forever because she's screwing around with her 11, 000 coupons. The party must associate itself with success and successful people as well as the "diverse".

"Oh, but the Democratic Party is the party of Diversity! We Love Everybody! Everyone has a say in our positions!! We are so fair and open minded! We are the party of the oppressed and denied! And we love the earth and water and the every little animal (vertebrates and the vertebrate challenged!) that makes their homes here! We love the downtrodden and the weak! We Are The Party of Inclusion!!"

We are the party that can't get elected. We are the party that fails to get a plurality of the vote at all levels. What does this tell you about the Party? We love everybody and yet nobody loves us.
We need to stop the hugging and swaying and the hand wringing and group hugs and start thinking like winners. We need to stop being needy and start being demanding. Less talking, fewer words and more fear - and not Global Warming fear or destruction of the rain forest fear. We need a fear that has a direct impact on day to day life, even if they appear ridiculous and unfounded. We need an enemy! And not just "The Man". The GOP didn't get where it is today by worrying about their manufactured fears appearing ridiculous and unfounded.

And I am not saying that we should jetison a huge part of party faithful, what I am saying is we can't just limit ourselves to those who feel or are rejected by the republican party. We need to widen our net and let more people know what the democratic party can do for them not just limiting ourselves to the folks the republican party has done to.

We need to go back to the old time democrats, the ones we disavowed in sixties. We were uncomfortable with their bigotry and their assbackaward mindset and they were not part of the New Democratic Party. Speaking of racists, have you ever read Nation Of Islam paper? it's racist crap - but, hey, we accept their intolerance because they are such good Democrats. Nobody is innocent.

We need the NASCAR Dads and the Soccer Moms and we let them turn into fodder for the GOP. We need to get back these people.

The Democratic Party needs to drop the NOKD attitude and teh elitist mindset and start showing up at NASCAR races and Christian concerts and everything else we perceive as being a lost cause to us. We need to rehabilitate this enormous voting block; we should never have allowed them to be sucked up by the republicans because they didn't fit the mold. These Dixicrats, these poor, these blue collar, these poorly educated, these hyper religious; These people should be ours. We need to show them that the Democratic Party isn't just for Wicca’s and Unitarians and everyone else that isn't like them. We allowed the GOP to blame the Democrats for their marginalization while their buddies in the GOP broke their unions and took their jobs away and kept them down.

We need to treat them better, We need to stop using them as the butt of our jokes. That is bigotry, boys and girls and that is costing us elections.