I am a registered Democrat. Here is some of what our parties (state, local, federal) need to do to win more elections:
1. Stop wringing our hands. We won the popular vote for president. We can’t help the odd quirks of the Electoral College.
2. Start preparing for the 2020 census, and get ready to be forceful in the redistricting process that will affect Congress and state legislatures until 2032. The Republicans did an excellent, if undemocratic, job with the 2010 census. We must do the same in 2020.
3. Don’t trust anyone over 50. We need candidates who are ineligible for Medicare and can operate their own cell phones. Bernie, Hillary, Nancy, Harry, Chuck, Andrew are way too old. I would name a young Democrat if I could, but it highlights the problem that I can’t. And please don’t mention Corey Booker until he does something besides win an election.
4. Embrace the core values of the party: protection of the middle class and the economically challenged.
5. Recognize what that Nobel laureate in literature told us 60 years ago. Things have changed, life-long work at the mill is not possible any more, and education is the key to a middle-class life. Professions like medicine, law, accounting and finance should not cost $300,000 just to get to the entry level, but that is what they cost now. If that is not fixed, nothing will be fixed.