Al Gore could unite business & progressive Democrats in 2020.

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49. I think Churchill was the right person for Britain after War was declared.

At the time he had been considered a failure--but he knew the nature of the enemy in the 1930s when others did not and got fooled. He would have been the right person to be Prime Minister in the 1930s-he had the correct world view-others didn't understand that they were already at war.

Churchill got turned out after victory and that was also the right decision-he was of the British Empire, iit was unraveling, and he was the wrong person for a war-changed England.

There are so-called progressive in the Democratic Party-both young and old-who have been very slow to recognize the changing world; slow to recognize how foreign policy and economics intersect.

While they think of themselves as "progressive" I see them as having an old world view and as being regressive in analysis and response.

Any Democrat with a view of women as an interest group whose interest are something that can be described as "women's issues" is out of touch. Any who do not see the primacy of human rights are out of touch. Any who were unprepared for the automated near-future are out-of-touch. Big Money in politics? The focus was entirely on American billionaires-like looking in the wrong end of a telescope.

I don't care if a candidate is 35 years old or 85, good looking or ugly, charismatic or unelectrifying-looking at those characteristics as priority, pivotal, or prerequisites reminds me of Bush fixing the facts around the objective to achieve an act of vengeance and revenge in which the rest of us were to pay for his ignorance, inexperience, and personal vendetta.

Our world has changed over the last decade and many progressives, who think they are cutting edge, did not know it was happening, and then have been slow to acknowledge it.

They did not learn of it in progressive journals nor on msnbc, or in university classes-because those sources are also out of touch.

We have been full of -isms, and blinded to what has been in plain sight.

The one certainty I see is that our world is going to change enormously-it will become much better or much, much worse. We will have human rights or we won't.

I see the focus on a presidential phenotype" for a 2020 victory, without building a coherent vision, a strange endeavor.