What political direction should the Democrats take next?

[TheKentuckian]

44. The thing that is missed is the platform is of little utility

if there is little to no confidence in making the shit happen.

Everytime we win we waste the first Congress bullshitting with bought partisanship, reaching across the aisle, and pretending to "teach the Republicans to govern" then cry obstruction when we really obstruct our fool selves.

It rings hollow to run on a child tax credit when we allowed the one we finally got in place to instantly sunset just one example.

We lost people FOREVER that we worked so fucking hard to get off the couch when the ACA came out of the grinder as nothing even resembling the first steps toward a public health system.
Was it an improvement? Sure.

Is it some patches on the existing boondoggle that massaged the pain just a bit but in actuality left us in essentially the same place in systems, outcomes, percentage of the economy, inflation, and total cost? Fuckin' A, Bubba.

Kamala's economic message fell flat.
Not because folks didn't cotton to the ideas but because they had no reason to take it seriously because we weren't passing any of that shit and everyone knew it not even if we had both houses of Congress because sixty isn't happening and we prove over and over that we aren't going to get shit done without permission from the Republicans so why bother with a middle man?