I have a great idea for a Democratic National Convention keynote speaker

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3. That is a good idea!

Somewhat different from mine. I was thinking maybe an investment banker to say how much better off we are because of the how this government propped up their millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses and didn't provide staffing to investigate their fraud, backdropped by the new people driven into poverty in the last couple years, or the tens of millions who are working a job with lower wages than they were 10 years ago. (Have to vet them, as you said, but there are tens of millions of the working poor to choose from now). Put the kids on the front row, especially the ones that depend on the school lunch programs for the only meal they will get that day. The video could run pictures of foreclosed homes (there are 2 million who have not made a payment in 2 years, as many as 6 million coming over the next 4 years - probably have to cut that a little). And everyone could swipe an EBT card to give them a meal for 1/3 of the $4 a day that food stamps gives.

And then tell everyone how much worse it could be without all this progress.

Yours would probably be a little more uplifting.