I think we need some different words to describe our place in the Party.

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1. We just have to be careful when we identify with another individual than hopefully a philosophy...

I do think that if we can identify with a person, then that gets heard more than just saying we're a "Progressive Democrat", where being "progressive" is nebulous, when even Third Way tries to call themselves "progressive" despite not really being so according to most of our definitions.

The problem with even FDR, much as I love him for most of what he did for us, I wouldn't want someone to try to falsely say that we support internment camps for asians, or that we support LBJ's "Gulf of Tonkin" decisions if we are a LBJ Democrat. We need to make sure to find someone that doesn't have those holes, or find a way to make it clear that we have those exceptions of where we might do things differently, and to emphasize heavily with talks on issues that we support people like FDR or LBJ for as well. That's the problem when we have a corporate media that tries to masquerade itself as the "liberal media" aligned against us these days.