What's clear is that Democratic Party messaging is woefully inadequate

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29. the first step is we need to stop the bad messaging

at least that would be a positive first step, IMO.

You have an almost complete list there of the bad messaging. It involves name-calling against people who disagree with us. On every issue, we seem to stake out a position that is held religiously. It is absolute and anybody who is not with us is - sexist, nativist (xenophobic), intolerant, anti-intellectual, pious and/or completely freaking idiotic. There are no decent human beings, not even one, on the other side.

That kind of messaging, that kind of preaching, is loved by the choir, which is only too happy to sing another chorus of "How great we art" but it tends to drive away people who are not already in the choir.

That's not the party's messaging, but it comes from supposed friends of the party.

Another problem I see is that what has been chosen as one message simply is not true. When Obama writes me and says "I am fighting for the middle class, I don't buy it, and I may not be the only one. So I would suggest two things there. First, try acting in ways that would make that message true, and second, perhaps talk more about how the other side is fighting for the rich.