Democrats have the urgent, exciting challenge to produce good visions for the future, and to re-establish these stories as shared goals with the American public. Every candidate hopeful is now on the hook to make pitches, and good ones, about who we are and who we want to be. Give us the dream, the appetite for beautiful ends. And then give us policy objectives as goals we strive for to help get us there. Americans are desperate for compelling stories about how to make sense of our moment, and how to best share life with our neighbors at a national, state, local, residential, ecological, and global digital communities-scale. Give us reasons to be excited and hopeful again!

This Hail Mary Is for Hope
Democrats have embarked on a process to rebuild trust with voters. They have already struck a winning blow against the cynicism of the Biden administration. And now, they have a chance to move further into opening up engagement, trust, and transparency in service of reviving our democratic system.

THE MOVE: Tell good stories about who America can be. [This is Critically Overdue!!!! We are dying from lack of good stories.]

For almost 10 years, Democrats have abdicated telling a good story to sharing big fears about Trump. This is fair, but it’s never been enough. We know Trump is dangerous. A story of “not that guy” / “not that party” is not a sufficient story about who we want to be, and it’s not an acceptable shared goal for the future.

Then one day you’ll board a flight to Portland. Let’s make it Halloween weekend, to turn up the narrative tension. And let’s say, you’re hoping to connect with friends, but planning to stay alone.

Weeks earlier, your body will trigger a soft alarm — Alone in Portland for 5 days…Rain, Sad, Isolation, No Good!! — and you’ll pay attention to it, because alarms like this are unusual (you love traveling alone, and your body is giving no such indicators about a similar week-long stretch in Seattle). But your mind can’t see any cause for the red lights, so you pull the trigger. And for the first 12 hours in town, you’re fine

And the Lord settled it

The first drink with water,the second without water,the third like water.

- Spanish Proverb

The first drink with water,the second without water,the third like water.

- Spanish Proverb

A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea.

- Kenyan Proverb

Stop judging people with tattoos while u have razor marks from a witch doctor under ur armpit

One word spoken in anger may spoil an entire life.

- Greek Proverb