Reply #31: Neither right nor left, but deeper [View All]

[HFishbine]

I think Kerry was "positioned" appropriately enough, but we as Dems need to go deeper in two ways.

DEEPER ORGANIZATIONALLY
If it was the community found in evangelical churches that found Bush an extra few million votes, we need an equivalent community. Our organizational equivalents are MoveOn, MeetUps, and DU. But they are less centralized than churches. They require more effort from the individuals involved. We fell a little short.

I think what we need is a more "boots on the ground" mentality. We need to proselytize and mobilize. We cannot sit on DU in the months and days before an election and fool ourselves into thinking we are activists. Next time, each and every one of us -- not some of us, or most of us, but all of us -- needs to plan on having an unpaid part time job in the three months before the election.

DEEPER MORALLY
Say what you will about Jimmy Carter, but he tied his faith to liberal policies and the country understood. The right has no monopoly on moral values. As we know, plenty of their policies and actions are downright immoral. We need to re-take the high ground on morality.

We need a candidate who can inspire people on a deeper level -- a sort of spiritual inspiration if you will, that offers liberal ideals not just as intelligent policy but as the proper course for a morally correct country.