The problem with DEM, as well as the GOP, is there are too many soapboxes and not enough feet to step up. While they both have their sacred cows to depend on, they hurt themselves by taking on more and forgetting about them after election day.
Fighting for the “common man” is an easy slogan but who is the “common man” nowadays? – PB/TK
How can Democrats win again? Advocate for the “common man,” Jerry Brown says – By Christopher Cadelago / Aug 6 2017
Gov. Jerry Brown, assessing the deepening rifts within his Democratic Party as it confronts the Trump administration, said in an interview airing Sunday that it should avoid litmus tests over divisive issues like abortion and instead take up the causes of the “common man.”
“If we want to be a governing party of a very diverse, and I say diverse ideologically as well as ethnically country, well, then you have to have a party that rises above the more particular issues to the generic, the general issue of making America great, if I might take that word,” Brown said on NBC’s “Meet the Press with Chuck Todd,” borrowing Donald Trump’s populist slogan.
“The litmus test should be intelligence … (and) caring about the common man,” Brown said on a special edition of the public affairs show called “Our Broken Politics.” “We have to rise above some of our most cherished ideological inclinations and find a common basis.”
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