Progressive Bull Moose: Rust Belt or Sun Belt. Pragmatic Progressivism or Socialism. Centrism or Liberalism: How about all of the above. In order to become a national party that thrives in all parts of the country, Democrats need to unite and devise a program that appeals to all parts of the nation. This program should include the liberal and social democratic goals of affordable Pre K through Graduate Education, shifting from fossil to clean energy, universal health care, universal child care, free and fair trade, paid family leave, stabilizing and expanding Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid, a living wage for everyone, and restoring fiscal and global management stability. These can be done through pragmatic progressive means. Take education for example. You can achieve affordable education through increases in child. hope scholarship and earned income tax credits, increases in the minimum wage, increases in pell grants, and free two year college tuition as well as publicly funding state universities and regulating their tuition rate hikes. Or health care. Stabilize and expand the Affordable Care Act. Expand Medicaid. Extend Medicare to those with catastrophic health conditions and to age 55, and have the government negotiate drug prices. As Bill Clinton once said, there is nothing that is wrong with America that cannot be fixed with what is right with America. There is no need to pick one region over another to campaign in. There is no one philosophy to solely embrace. It is time for the Democrats and Progressives to unite and get the job done.

Monday, February 25, 2019

Rust Belt or Sun Belt. Pragmatic Progressivism or Socialism. Centrism or Liberalism: How about all of the above. In order to become a national party that thrives in all parts of the country, Democrats need to unite and devise a program that appeals to all parts of the nation. This program should include the liberal and social democratic goals of affordable Pre K through Graduate Education, shifting from fossil to clean energy, universal health care, universal child care, free and fair trade, paid family leave, stabilizing and expanding Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid, a living wage for everyone, and restoring fiscal and global management stability. These can be done through pragmatic progressive means. Take education for example. You can achieve affordable education through increases in child. hope scholarship and earned income tax credits, increases in the minimum wage, increases in pell grants, and free two year college tuition as well as publicly funding state universities and regulating their tuition rate hikes. Or health care. Stabilize and expand the Affordable Care Act. Expand Medicaid. Extend Medicare to those with catastrophic health conditions and to age 55, and have the government negotiate drug prices. As Bill Clinton once said, there is nothing that is wrong with America that cannot be fixed with what is right with America. There is no need to pick one region over another to campaign in. There is no one philosophy to solely embrace. It is time for the Democrats and Progressives to unite and get the job done.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/25/fresh-signs-trumps-weakness-just-emerged-some-democrats-are-already-screwing-up/?fbclid=IwAR1Q-A0H-dSCM8ET7--1eBZ-n4mimy9ZyR9WizC02ni6-pbDYD6MXIBKUNs&utm_term=.4705cf577767

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/us/politics/democrats-2020-midwest-voters.html?action=click&module=Top+Stories&pgtype=Homepage&fbclid=IwAR1gI9JipwQ7O8gixduhz-C5F0zeYT88HoGeYLRfgeKFHm1dxuK_uLsy_kA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/25/economic-reasoning-behind-democrats-bold-agenda/?fbclid=IwAR2nDN3TIDEuCRAmQWMXIrtbb8B24dah0nRjY0X3EP2LjIC4MZIClz-skxo&utm_term=.6367129d471c

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/politics/medicare-for-all-opponents/index.html?fbclid=IwAR22pdLeZo5PS5luTpxjSpLZF9UDQKPvMdOF5BlidjuFSib7MBKiCVBgy1A

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