The abandonment part isn't what I'm impressed by. If I were to rewrite this as a real manifesto, there is a lot I would drop. (Most of the spiteful negative comments. While I understand the anger that prompts, and think that the left deserves a couple weeks of grousing like that, it doesn't help in the long wrong.) What I like is that it provides a real framework that talks to the real core of the party. The Dems have tried to be everything to everybody for so long, we could really use a solid focus. I like the idea of the Dems not acting ashamed of their core for once. Properly done, I think it has the rhetorical capability to counteract the 'true america' bullshit that the GOP gets away with. Neither is any more true than the other, and I want a party that's willing to stand up and say so.
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