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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: S. maltophilia10/26/2025 12:58:03 PM
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....The Democratic Party’s communication failure is not that they lack ideas, it’s that they are absent a narrative. The right has mastered storytelling, which is a fable of rugged individualism under siege by bureaucratic elites. Democrats respond with data, nuance, and PowerPoints. Voters don’t feel nuance, though; they feel belonging. Making a declaration against kings is powerful. If we also said, “We the People will build a nation that serves all of us,” we would likely find it transformative.

Imagine if Democrats framed their policies in moral terms. Universal health care becomes the right to live free of fear; public education is the seedbed of democracy; progressive taxation becomes gratitude made tangible; a national bank is freedom from predatory capitalism; military restraint is defined as courage rooted in humanity. Dr. King spoke that language fluently, fusing spiritual and civic rhetoric until they became indistinguishable. “True compassion,” he said, “is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” That line alone could anchor a century of Democratic campaigns, if only someone had the courage to say it again....

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