A contest

[lollardfish]

Your mission is to come up with a 2-4 word statement that should (not does) define the Democratic Party's message to the American people. You then need to have 3-5 bullet points that say what your message would do. Nothing can be longer than about one sentence. Only one of them can be negative (like, throw the current guys out!)

Examples:

The New Deal
- Job training
- Job creation through public works
- Social security/welfare net
- Reinvigorate the morale of the American worker/economy

The Great Society
- End racism
- End poverty
- Beat the Ruskies

Contract With America
- Throw out career politicians, replace with term-limited private citizens
- End big government
- Cut taxes
- Give people jobs, not welfare

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So if you're a democrat (which I am, and I suspect most of my friends here are), what's our message going to be for 2006. I'm not convinced the actual politicians know, at least not in any nice three word phrase which the average voter will comprehend.

EDIT: I posted some amusing responses from (This red sox site)

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I'm not all that great at this...

[sidhebear.livejournal.com]

Statement - American Democracy

-- Byline - It's time for the people's influence to matter

-- Prez Rickard - volunteer politicians only (you can live on state welfare, just

like some of the people who elected you)

-- Have fun in India - No more corporate tax benefits.

-- Welcome to America - Tarriffs against outsourcing and shipping in, to channel

economic resources into local production points. No NAFTA, no CAFTA.

-- Plant a garden - education on what can be grown and sold in certain climates to

decrease farm subsidies.

That's all I get, but I have more.

As a party, we're failing on a social, intellectual, and spiritual level to those

who know how to speak up louder than our spirits generally allow us.

It's time to gain some charisma that will cross political lines.

I just wonder if we can do it in unison.