Pete Buttigieg must be surging, Wonkette exposes dirty twitter troll tricks against him

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13. On narrative: "you need our altitude to be both higher and lower.

Higher in the sense that I think we need to talk about values and principles, that's why I'm out there talking about what freedom and democracy and security mean before we get into the depth of any policy idea. And at the same time also be talking in terms that are nearer to the ground, really explaining what we believe in in terms of everyday lived experience and how different under us it will be than under them.

Too often even many Democrats can't explain the high of what who we are as a party and what we believe in and fall victim to hostile manipulators on both right and left who rush to fill the holes in their understanding.

Thomas Jefferson on gay rights and the constitution as a living document:

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.

Jefferson's principles are intrinsically liberal and natural products of humanism and The Enlightenment. Those strong conservatives for whom they just don't ping have nothing to replace long-established philosophies but knee-jerk resistance to change and yearning for leaders to fill in the blanks for them.