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This is an excellent take, and a welcome change from the "we're all gonna die" discourse that has taken over social media and mainstream media. I would add--those of use who are old enough to remember the labor rights movements of the 60s or the WTO protests need to gracefully cede the wheel. Our time is coming to a close, and the people who are coming out of college with massive debt or struggling to buy their first home have every right--and obligation--to decide this country's future. Ignoring and sidelining them is at least half the reason so many either didn't vote, or voted third party. And we've been here before! Remember Ross Perot and George The Younger? We can't keep making the same mistake over and over. Time to step back and take an advisory role.
We need a manifesto now because we're out of power. It's nowhere near enough to have individuals spouting off about what to do next. We need a plan that anyone who wants to can salute. The last such manifesto came from the late 1960s; it was the Port Huron Statement and it got a lot of things wrong, partly because it was written by kids in the SDS who thought that students were the most important political entity. A manifesto would be an antidote to Project 2025 and would put our issues front and center in concrete terms. This would be a great change from the nebulous single issue screeds we see on the left. To start, the new manifesto should begin with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This necessarily jettisons a lot of demands for government to more or less guarantee happiness rather than its pursuit. By this measure, the manifesto might be considered anti-woke and that, coming from Democrats, might be a good thing.
This is an excellent take, and a welcome change from the "we're all gonna die" discourse that has taken over social media and mainstream media. I would add--those of use who are old enough to remember the labor rights movements of the 60s or the WTO protests need to gracefully cede the wheel. Our time is coming to a close, and the people who are coming out of college with massive debt or struggling to buy their first home have every right--and obligation--to decide this country's future. Ignoring and sidelining them is at least half the reason so many either didn't vote, or voted third party. And we've been here before! Remember Ross Perot and George The Younger? We can't keep making the same mistake over and over. Time to step back and take an advisory role.
We need a manifesto now because we're out of power. It's nowhere near enough to have individuals spouting off about what to do next. We need a plan that anyone who wants to can salute. The last such manifesto came from the late 1960s; it was the Port Huron Statement and it got a lot of things wrong, partly because it was written by kids in the SDS who thought that students were the most important political entity. A manifesto would be an antidote to Project 2025 and would put our issues front and center in concrete terms. This would be a great change from the nebulous single issue screeds we see on the left. To start, the new manifesto should begin with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This necessarily jettisons a lot of demands for government to more or less guarantee happiness rather than its pursuit. By this measure, the manifesto might be considered anti-woke and that, coming from Democrats, might be a good thing.