The Way Forward

Some people are overweight, maybe because they're stressed out and eat bad food. It doesn't make them stupid or bad.

We are losing the immigrant vote and the minority vote. Drilling down into precinct level the areas that are heavily immigrant are where the biggest shifts to the right occured. Similarly with Hispanic and Asian votes, and Black men. Polling shows support for gay people across the board, it's guys in the bathrooms of high school girls that rankles. I'd forget about calling people racist or the finger pointing will be at us.

Like it or not our party is viewed as the party of the highly paid elites. We get a lot more big donations from wealthy people and blow it on TV nobody watches and overpaid consultants.

The working class is interested in a good job, not money for trade schools or teachers unions but a six figure job today, like union coal miners get. So far our plans for immigration are to give visas low wage workers, that doesn't cut it. What are our plans for the millions already here? Until we have an alternative that is obviously beneficial to workers, we lose. Remember Hispanic voters aren't Mexicans, they are Americans.

I voted for Bernie Sanders twice, and I love his shtick, and he's right we don't need tax breaks for the wealthy, but right now people are looking at that little box over on the right hand side of the paycheck and the number is too low. $21 is the new 15, we don't need more workers we need more money.