General Discussion

Can anybody name three things that each of the most recent Dem Presidents (or candidates) clearly staked out as things they were committed to accomplishing -- with specifics the people could relate to?

Trump was pretty clear in 2016 about building a wall. And in 2024, the GOP had Project 2025, which was absolutely specific. Practically everything they have done (for better or worse) was spelled out in detail. They were doing to deport millions. They were going to fire 50,000 civil service people and replace them with political hacks. They were going to take agencies established with political independence and place them under a king/President. They called for Biblical law to persecute gays and criminalize abortions.They plan to end birthright citizenship. These things are all right there in the book

Americans don't necessarily want to understand policy. It makes their brains hurt and take time away from their fantasy football. But they are naturally attracted to the candidates that speak forcefully about tangible plans. Americans hate wishy-washy talk.

Dem candidates avoid specifics at all costs. We don't talk about expanding the highly successful, very efficient, and popular Medicare system to cover all Americans. Instead, we say things like "making health care more affordable". That means nothing to people. We don't talk about raising the maximum tax rate on the richest people to where it was in 1981, before Reaganomics when we had a strong middle class, and opportunity was growing for everyone including minorities. Instead, we speak in generalities like "economic fairness". That means nothing. It has no teeth.

So I applaud what Neguse is trying to do, but we need our own Project 2027 and Project 2029 that has SPECIFICS. We should be talking about the specific reforms for the SCOTUS. We should be talking about the specific demands we will make of the richest corporations and individuals, a la "ask not what your country can do for you ..." We should be talking about specific changes we will fight for to take money and bribery out of our politics, as Neguse is doing. And so on.

Is it too much to ask that Democrats actually have a real action plan?