The November 3rd Theses (ala Martin Luther's 99 Theses)

[DinahMoeHum]

Links:
http://www.3nov.com/theses.html

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1112-34.htm

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XV.
Candidates who intend to win should no longer hire consultants who repeatedly lose. Those who counsel caution when dealing with the indifferent, the disaffected, and the undecided do not understand American history. Consultants who advise their clients against offering a clear and compelling vision in fear that it will be attacked should find themselves without a home in the Democratic Party. The sooner they retire, the better.
XVI.
Unconnected at a values level, the Democratic Party's laundry list of policy proposals is a confusing and alienating hodgepodge of special interests bound together by a vague sense that "we're all on the same side." Such a conflation demands no critical self-examination of the interest groups whose turf, and very identities, are treated as inviolable by Party chieftains.
XVII.
The progressive vision must be a direct challenge to fundamentalism in all of its forms: political, religious and economic. It must match fundamentalism's power without replicating its authoritarianism. It must appeal to the values of liberty, equality, community, justice, unconditional love, shared prosperity, and ecological restoration, among many others.
XVIII.
Democrats serious about returning to majority status must:
Retire any leader who believes that we are currently on a winning path that simply needs more money and effort.
Define and articulate a coherent set of values of our base, and be willing to lose those allies who do not share these values.
Fight battles, win or lose, that define and advance our values and expand our political base.
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much, much more. . .

:kick:

[wurzel]

1. Get some who says all votes will be counted and MEANS IT!

If the Dems have any extra money, buy some voting machines!!!!