80% of the population wants lobbyist out of washington, 70% want medicare 4 all, # like that seems reasonable to me, it can happen! also note overwhelming majority want higher taxes for the rich and a green new deal.

We can't ever convince the poor people who fell for Trump's drivel. We need to get out the vote of young people and somehow heal the divide within the party. Older centrist Democrats will stay home if we end up with a true Progressive and vice versa if we end up with a Centrist. That is unless, we figure out a way to make both sides quit demonizing the other side.

Won't be easy but we must

I saw a story about "socialism" this morning. Young people in general have a more positive connotation. But, you're right, the right is trying to vilify the word. When Reagan began smearing people as "liberal" people ran away from the word and it became a bad thing to most people. We should have embraced the word and said "Damn right I'm a liberal. Look at all the things it has given us." I hope we embrace socialism instead of running from it. Educate people about all the benefits and the horrible choice of unbridled capitalism.

Key on points. The drum beat to paint socialism as bad has been going on for a long time. The cons have imbued their version of government as what the xtions god wants and just like how they once argued it as for slavery of a person's body they now argue for possession of a person's financial abilities and life in general as god shall provide for all that believe - and yet, they wallow in the same bullshit and many suffer under the oppressive thumbs of financial tyrants.