Does the party need to move right culturally to win more elections?

[ollie10]

22. We don't need to go further right! That would make it worse, not better!

This line of "thinking" assumes that if we package ourselves with a finger in the wind we will start to win more elections.....wrong!

People want genuineness, not phoniness. They are tired of whom they call typical politicians. That is part of how Trump got to be president, by attacking politicians, the establishment, etc

I voted for Bernie in the primary, but I am not saying we need to go further to the left either.

What we need to do is figure out the values we stand for as a party, the issues that we fight for. We need to articulate who we are better....as it is the Rs are defining us.

Maybe we have to get together and write up some sort of manifesto, with the issues that unite us and find some way of getting this out to the voters. How voting for Ds will help voters' lives better than voting R. Get a list of winning issues we hammer home and present a vision for America in the process. We don't have to go conservative, or go liberal....we need to articulate ourselves better. We have the winning side of the issues on the environment, global warming, education, health care, the economy, jobs, infrastructure, etc etc etc.....

The Rs are good for marketing their ideas into catchy phrases....like MAGA or America First. Why let them be the only ones to effectively market their pathetic ideas? We can come up with something truly inspirational if we tried.