Reply #64: You should read George Lakoff

[1932]

Democrats aren't losing because "most of America leans right."

I have no problem with the Democratic NOT running a north eastern, protestant preppy for president. I do have a problem with running candidates who don't have progressive convictions that are plain as day. I think the problem with north eastern protestant preppies isn't that "most of {conservative} America" doesn't like them. I thinnk the problem with them is that they don't project the progressive convictions of being for the working person, of believing that democracy requires a broad base of power devolved to the people, and they don't tell people that we're all better off when we're all better off. And if a southern white candidate doesn't project those qualities, we might as well just run another north eastern preppy (or even immigrant) nihilist, because we'll lose either way.