it's not about "message"--a word that describes the shallow incrementalism of the Clinton era.

In the long run, Democrats cannot inspire voters' imagination and regain power merely by appealing to whichever group of swing voters this year's consultants make fashionable.

In the long run, the success of a political movement depends on doing something of consequence. Progressives must step to the plate with real proposals again . . . We must sound the clarion call to improve the human condition. As British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said, "The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." If a political party wants to avoid being buried, it must become a champion of change.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -Franklin Roosevelt