UPDATED - Schumer: Democrats were 'namby-pamby'

[chowder66]

16. "...with public polling showing that most people don't know what Democrats stand for ...

beyond opposition to the unpopular president.

This sentence from the article truly amazes me. And makes me wonder if people have given up trying to think at all.

If the Republicans are against it, the Democrats are most likely for it. It isn't the other way around.

It seems to me that Democrats need to start spelling out, under a banner of simple principle(s), what we stand for by way of teaching the public what each issue is about and what it means to support them.

For example...something like this;

Democrats in short are for the pursuit of Quality of Life, Liberty and Happiness for Americans. We stand for the rights of all people to access the best that America has to offer whether you are rich, poor or somewhere in between.

Democrats are pro-women, pro-choice. Pro-choice means that we support the rights of women to choose to carry a child to term or if they feel a need to have safe access for an abortion, based on their life circumstances and the health risk of mother and/or child.
It's a woman's choice; not ours, not the governments or the states choice. We support clinics that provide safe access to abortion and who also provide a number of other services which abortion is only a small fraction of.
These clinics services reduce the amount of abortions even further by providing birth control services and save lives by performing general exams which can detect greater concerns to be addressed by a physician. These clinics have proven to save lives by detecting early signs of breast and cervical cancers among other life threatening issues.

Maybe provide a link to studies and further explanation. And address each major issue Climate Change, Gun Control, LGBT rights, Civil Rights, Economic Equality, Higher Wages, Unions, etc. Maybe they need to tweet these out daily and talk about at least a few each time they get on camera. Run spots periodically on tv to remind people.

It seems it must be driven into the minds of those that don't seek out the information.