Another Platform Presentation posted by Ben

In the spirit of finding a Democratic platform with a strong backbone, check out this recent post and discussion on Daily Kos. Make sure you read the whole thing to see the author's suggestions for how to implement each of the steps listed below.

Democrats should:

1. Create a solid, proactive, concise, sincere, compelling, and positive plan (manifesto) for the future of America.
   
2. Distribute the manifesto by email and by word of mouth.
   
3. Print the manifesto as advertisements (moveon style) in national, regional, and local papers.
   
4. Push the plan aggressively in the media.
   
5. Take every opportunity to illustrate the ways in which the current Republican agenda fails to live up to the far superior Democratic plan.
   
6. Force the Republicans to address the Democratic agenda by means of increasingly vocal criticism of the Republican administrative bungles. Aggressively compare Republican idiocy to the advantages of the Democratic plan.
   
7. Start soon, and keep the plan in the public consciousness through the 2006 and 2008 elections, doing everything possible to live up to all goals as soon as possible.
   
8. Use the plan to attract swing voters and build a congressional majority.

It sounds so logical, yet we have yet to see anything like this emerge from the Democrats in any organized manner. If they don't move on something like this soon, it could make the 2006 primaries very interesting as the grassroots fields candidates who stand for something against Democratic incumbents.