Reply #75: 50 year plan

[ulTRAX]

The best ideas should be easier to sell if they are based in a coherent paradigm. One can't dismiss ideas unless they also rethink the basic assumptions which presumably would be "self evident" and not that controversial.

But I believe Progressives need a 50 year plan based upon a coherent paradigm. These principles would at the heart of policies, and policy discussion reinforce the core assumptions.

Say we come to agree that if democracy is at the heart of morally legitimate government and democracy requires all votes weigh the same. If we BELIEVE that we'd soon want a long term goal to bring democratic reform to the federal government... something even the Democratic Party does NOT now support. This could be broken into interim steps to overcome and redirect that mainstream ideological inertia and to build an eventual consensus for that reform. Reforms could begin on the state level. Here's some thoughts on how this process might work: http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/index.php?showtopic=5891