Progressives storm Democratic primaries

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72. My view is that we need to focus on the future.

We need to focus on youth and the future.

That is why I favor the primary system.

Roy Moore and the conservative view on politics and life are about the past.

We are the party with solutions to the problems of the future, living in a world with a higher population, feeding and housing a larger population, employing a larger population in a world with all the new technology, providing for healthcare in that new world, dealing with climate change (we really fell it in California), balancing our budget but also balancing the needs of the poor with those of the rich, justice and equality for all people regardless of race, gender, gender preference, ability, physical capacity, age and geographical location, encouraging the use of new technology, all the challenges we face.

As we saw from the Republican tax bill, the Republican vision of the future is one of division, blindness to the challenges of the present much less the future, ignorance, sectarianism, a belief in a sort of magical religion that has nothing to do with solving the human problems that I think religion should deal with (from my reading of the New Testament), nurturing hate, racial and every other kind of discrimination possible rather than love and acceptance -- just a hodge-podge of attitudes and ideas that will push America backward not forward.

Democrats need to focus on the future. We need to be the masters and mistresses of the technologies and ideas that will make us successful in the future. We have to learn to work together in harmony, because Republicans thrive on disharmony. We need to be the Party of new ideas.

I am optimistic because I believe we can do this. And if we do it in a way that is enthusiastic and not mired in the depression we have about Trump and lost elections, we will win. Americans are adopting new technologies. We need to point out to our nation that adopting new energy technologies and responding to the future with optimism, realism and courage is what we need.

Rehashing lost elections and nursing hurt feelings is not at all what we need.

I have to be careful. I do not want to insult people or hurt feelings even more than they are but right now, we Democrats are facing a challenge. When I talk to my Democratic friends, it is all anger and hurt, but that does not solve problems and it does not win elections.

We are the party of the future. Let's never forget that. We (with a lot of help from FDR) rescued the country from the depression. We got off track when we became the party associated with a difficult war, a perhaps unwinnable war and then divided into factions that could not work together or forgive and move forward.

We have to join together with people with whom we may have had serious differences. We have to see what they saw in their direction and still maintain our own direction. People make mistakes. What one person sees as a good choice, another sees as a destructive choice. Sometimes it is very difficult to know the difference.

But right now, we have to forget the past and move into the future. Obama would do that.

And that is what we need to do now -- move into the future. We Democrats have the keys to opening the technological doors into the future. The country is waiting for us to do that. We have to let it know that our focus is on the future and the ways we can respond to the problems and opportunities of the future.