Dem Leaders: Admit You Didn’t Listen and Stop Chasing the Mythical “Middle”

I think I speak for many folks when I say, there is nothing more compelling than when someone or a group admits “Hey I didn’t listen, I screwed up and I will fix it.” If Dem leaders would acknowledge they stopped listening, humble themselves by getting out to all 50 states and start listening to folks’ real needs in context, everything would start getting better immediately. Dems are in a rebuilding period. This needs to be clearly embraced.

Instead, what many Dems are doing is saying we have to “tack to the middle or the right.” Nobody understands what the “middle” means. Its meaningless.

Politicians revere a mythological land called “The Middle” and they always want to “tack to the right or middle”. “That will fix everything,” they will say with vigor. These are the entirely false and extremely tiring ideas that got us to where we are today, defeated and flailing in the wilderness. We must admit Democrats stopped asking folks what their real everyday problems are and what they want.

If…