All this agonizing and overthinking and strategizing and bickering....The Democrats (and all of the left half) have become the Party of Hamlet. No longer is the Kicking Mule its symbol of relentles determination....Instead, it's the gloomy overanalytical Dane.."To be or not to be?"

Should Democrats go for the so-called Center or go left? Should it seek swing voters or rally the base? Should it be the party of traditional values and out-moralize the GOP? How open can we be about the Liberal Agenda? Should we even be associated with liberalism? How do we win the NASCAR Dads? How do we frame our message?.....blah, de, blah, blah,blah.

IMO it's real simple. We all know what's wrong. A vast number of apolitical people know what's wrong. Even many of the grass-roots conservatives recognize what's wrong, even though they keep trying to deny it.

It's real clear. America has turned our fate over to a small but powerful clique of oligarchs in charge of massive, cumbersome and abusive corporations. Not necesarily a conspiracy. Just your basic accumulation of increasing wealth and power by those who already had more than enough to start with. And the interests of the elites are not the interests of the majority of Americans.....

AND more importantly, the value system they represent are not the true values of most Americans.
But over the last 30 years, a massive amount of Snake Oil was shoved down our collective throats. Nonsense like "You have to work harder for less money, and you will eventually be better off." Meanwhile, while the average working stiff has gotten shafted, the ratio of ceo pay to the average worker has gone from 8-1 about 30 years ago to more than 400-1 today.

And nonsense like "Shipping our jobs and economy over to China will make our economy stronger." Or the "Allowing a few mega-corporations to wipe out all competition will increase our competativeness."


Finally, finally after 30 years of this double-speak, people are noticing that they've been lied to. The rosy future they were promised earlier is here, and it's dark, rther than rosy.

People either know or sense this. The reaction to the port deal, for example, had as much to do with revulsion at the Selling of America as with any security concerns.

So how do Democrats deal with this in a politically potent way? It's SIMPLE!...Less Hamlet and more FDR. Stop agonizing over what Karl Rove will do, or how some unchangable freepers will react. And stop kowtowing to the media snarks. And forget "framing." Just start speaking some plain honest truth and advocate for what we really believe again.

Tell people that the Democrats/liberals/progressive recognize these problems. And make it clear that we REALLY will stand up and fight to reverse them, and defend the interests of the majority and the temporarily or permanently disadvantaged again. Advocate for and defend a return to a more human-oriented economy and sense of community, instead of a Milton Friedman Profit Uber Alles one based on "Every Man for Himself.".

It really isn't as complicated as we often make it. Nor does it have to be divisive. We all know what's wrong, and the basics of what needs to e done to fix it.