Wanna blame Democratic 'messaging' and falling into the MAGA 'value trap',go ahead. But also gotta blame the ill-informed, gutturally bigoted, "empty-headed, empty hearted" (Baldwin) electorate who knew / knows what Trump IS but cynically and lazily nodded, "Okay."
Ever since Trump was elected in November, I have been toying with the idea of running for president on a Democratic ticket in 2028. I turn 69 in June, so I will be approximately 71 in 2028. I will appeal to both liberals and conservatives for the following reasons.
I have a PhD in Biblical Studies (Old Testament), an EdS in Educational Leadership (Educational Administration), an MEd in Education (Curriculum and Instruction), an MDiv, and a Bachelor of Theology. Despite this, I am an anti-Christian Nationalist. On the other hand, I was an electrician for approximately thirty-three and a half years--both union and non union. So I see life from both sides.
I have some experience with business management, having started a small Bible college in Alaska, and having established a copyediting business here in North Carolina. However, I have never run for political office nor have I held a position in government. This, I believe, would give me the same appeal to the populous that Trump leveraged to his advantage. I would come from outside of the Beltway.
In addition to this, I am cross-culturally oriented, having spent eight years of my childhood in Peru, South America; four years as an elementary student in west Philadelphia; six of my teenage years in Eastern Kentucky; thirteen of my young adult years in southeast Michigan; twelve years in Fairbanks, Alaska; and a combined total so far of twenty-five years in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Oh. One more thing. I was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and spent the first three summers of my life there while my father taught at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. You can't get much closer to being from the middle of the United States.
In fact, I am so cross-culturally oriented that I became infatuated with a black girl in my fifth-grade class in Philadelphia. I still remember her name. When I told her that I liked her, she replied, "I can't like you. You're white." That's the first time I realized I was "white" and that it made a difference. I am now "woke."
As someone who leans liberal, I would nominate cabinet members who are experts in their fields. In fact, I would prefer to nominate my cabinet members (or at least my chief of staff) from among the hosts on the MeidasTouch Network or individuals they recommend. Expertise is not enough. I would also emphasize general personal morality. I would fact-check my statements in an attempt to always tell the truth.
As someone who is truly born-again, as opposed to Trump--who is as degenerate as they come, I would appeal to Evangelicals. And, yes, I have a favorite passage of the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
The main obstacle entailed my platform. I would support the progressive goals concerning the personal economic and civic welfare of everyone living in the US. I would support a strong southern border and humane immigration laws. I can even support women's reproductive health from a biblical point of view. I would try to re-establish our relationships with other nations and seek to reverse Trump's Executive Orders.
But Democrats have a messaging problem. This changed for me while I was watching Sarah Longwell's "Focus Group Podcast" (5/10/2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku2FCbFX0Tg; beginning at 24:15). She was talking about the fact that Democrats, like Trump, need a "big picture" message that resonates emotionally with the general public. Here's what she said:
"Trump takes big swings. . . . I think that Democrats have to learn the lesson. . . . Listening to voters, right, they need kind of big, bold things now to get their hands around. But they're not interested--I just remember the Democrats in 2020 when they had their primary, and they just, they had multiple debates in which they focused on the incredibly nuanced parts of healthcare. And it is true that healthcare matters in extraordinary amounts to Democratic voters, but I'm not sure that it's not like proposing big swings, and like fighting on them, and saying them over and over again, and convincing people.
"I think that Democrats, like they listen to this, they hear, they listen to voters, and through people like me maybe, or they listen to voters and their polling. And they are like, 'Okay, well we need to go to where the voters are, right?'
"Trump does like, 'I'm going to stand here, and I'm going to bring everyone to me. And I'm going to do it by just saying the same thing over and over again, and like pounding my position. And it's not, I'm not going to get you into the details, right? I only have,' what does he say? . . . 'the [concept] of a plan.' But, like, they're big, bold swings that people can get their arms around. 'And build a wall. I'm going to build a wall.' No you're not! Like, no one's mad at him that he didn't build a wall really. They took it as a stand-in for, like, this guy's going to go hard on immigration, which is something I want to happen.
"And this is, I feel like, where Democrats got to shake themselves loose of a lot of the old ways of--'cause the media is not going to carry a nuanced message. You gotta start taking big swings.
[Here is where she really caught my attention and convinced me that I have a chance at being elected in 2028. This is right up my alley.]
"Let's just say hypothetically this is sort of if I fantasy ran for president. I would run on a massive education reform platform that was about, like, schools are going to be the center of our society. We are going to pay teachers a ton more. We're gonna enter into a grand bargain with teachers' unions where, like, they back off, you know, protecting crappy teachers, and, like, we're gonna professionalize and pay more to teach. Like, we're just going to put schools at the center of communities. We're going to build schools, not prisons, and we're going to, you know, this is how we're going to lead the world is through education. And we're going to change America by making us the best place for public education in the world.
"And schools are also going to be places where people can get like minor health care and we're going to do ESL training and all kinds of other trainings and things in the summer. Like whatever you make a big pitch to something new that like leads to some aspiration you weave in some abundance here and there right where it's not scarce. We can't, we can still do big things, and I guess I mean that the audacious part of bold leadership, having some vision about how we make the country a better place instead of arguing over like different modes of how you might tweak the health care system, which I don't think is where voters are now. Like they feel like things are in a tough place. They want to see big bold things and Trump did that.
"[Right] now it's all the extra legal stuff is a problem, and if I were a Democrat I'd be like, 'Hey guys, we can do big things in this country without breaking the law. We can do it by and include Congress, and have checks and balances.'"
One trait of good leadership is to surround yourself with personnel who have strengths where you have weaknesses. This is why I would nominate cabinet members who are experts in their fields. I think we could pull this off if Democrats were to get a super majority in both houses in 2026 and hold them in 2028.
Wanna blame Democratic 'messaging' and falling into the MAGA 'value trap',go ahead. But also gotta blame the ill-informed, gutturally bigoted, "empty-headed, empty hearted" (Baldwin) electorate who knew / knows what Trump IS but cynically and lazily nodded, "Okay."
Thank You for the TRUTH !
Sen Chris Murphy is a great example for reaching out
THE REAL REASON: It IS All Going to Hell --- THE AVERAGE "IQ" IN THE USA FOR MANY YEARS WAS "110" ---
Today, IN 2025 --- The Average IQ is "100" er, uh , IT IS "90" IN RED STATES --- 40% of the USA is USELESS AND WORTHLESS...
Ulysses S. Grant Should Have "Mowed Down" ALL Red States when He had the Chance...
MAGA still Thinks the South WILL Rise Again ! They are as Much a Confederacy as they were in 1860's !
I have a dream.
Ever since Trump was elected in November, I have been toying with the idea of running for president on a Democratic ticket in 2028. I turn 69 in June, so I will be approximately 71 in 2028. I will appeal to both liberals and conservatives for the following reasons.
I have a PhD in Biblical Studies (Old Testament), an EdS in Educational Leadership (Educational Administration), an MEd in Education (Curriculum and Instruction), an MDiv, and a Bachelor of Theology. Despite this, I am an anti-Christian Nationalist. On the other hand, I was an electrician for approximately thirty-three and a half years--both union and non union. So I see life from both sides.
I have some experience with business management, having started a small Bible college in Alaska, and having established a copyediting business here in North Carolina. However, I have never run for political office nor have I held a position in government. This, I believe, would give me the same appeal to the populous that Trump leveraged to his advantage. I would come from outside of the Beltway.
In addition to this, I am cross-culturally oriented, having spent eight years of my childhood in Peru, South America; four years as an elementary student in west Philadelphia; six of my teenage years in Eastern Kentucky; thirteen of my young adult years in southeast Michigan; twelve years in Fairbanks, Alaska; and a combined total so far of twenty-five years in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Oh. One more thing. I was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and spent the first three summers of my life there while my father taught at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. You can't get much closer to being from the middle of the United States.
In fact, I am so cross-culturally oriented that I became infatuated with a black girl in my fifth-grade class in Philadelphia. I still remember her name. When I told her that I liked her, she replied, "I can't like you. You're white." That's the first time I realized I was "white" and that it made a difference. I am now "woke."
As someone who leans liberal, I would nominate cabinet members who are experts in their fields. In fact, I would prefer to nominate my cabinet members (or at least my chief of staff) from among the hosts on the MeidasTouch Network or individuals they recommend. Expertise is not enough. I would also emphasize general personal morality. I would fact-check my statements in an attempt to always tell the truth.
As someone who is truly born-again, as opposed to Trump--who is as degenerate as they come, I would appeal to Evangelicals. And, yes, I have a favorite passage of the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
The main obstacle entailed my platform. I would support the progressive goals concerning the personal economic and civic welfare of everyone living in the US. I would support a strong southern border and humane immigration laws. I can even support women's reproductive health from a biblical point of view. I would try to re-establish our relationships with other nations and seek to reverse Trump's Executive Orders.
But Democrats have a messaging problem. This changed for me while I was watching Sarah Longwell's "Focus Group Podcast" (5/10/2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku2FCbFX0Tg; beginning at 24:15). She was talking about the fact that Democrats, like Trump, need a "big picture" message that resonates emotionally with the general public. Here's what she said:
"Trump takes big swings. . . . I think that Democrats have to learn the lesson. . . . Listening to voters, right, they need kind of big, bold things now to get their hands around. But they're not interested--I just remember the Democrats in 2020 when they had their primary, and they just, they had multiple debates in which they focused on the incredibly nuanced parts of healthcare. And it is true that healthcare matters in extraordinary amounts to Democratic voters, but I'm not sure that it's not like proposing big swings, and like fighting on them, and saying them over and over again, and convincing people.
"I think that Democrats, like they listen to this, they hear, they listen to voters, and through people like me maybe, or they listen to voters and their polling. And they are like, 'Okay, well we need to go to where the voters are, right?'
"Trump does like, 'I'm going to stand here, and I'm going to bring everyone to me. And I'm going to do it by just saying the same thing over and over again, and like pounding my position. And it's not, I'm not going to get you into the details, right? I only have,' what does he say? . . . 'the [concept] of a plan.' But, like, they're big, bold swings that people can get their arms around. 'And build a wall. I'm going to build a wall.' No you're not! Like, no one's mad at him that he didn't build a wall really. They took it as a stand-in for, like, this guy's going to go hard on immigration, which is something I want to happen.
"And this is, I feel like, where Democrats got to shake themselves loose of a lot of the old ways of--'cause the media is not going to carry a nuanced message. You gotta start taking big swings.
[Here is where she really caught my attention and convinced me that I have a chance at being elected in 2028. This is right up my alley.]
"Let's just say hypothetically this is sort of if I fantasy ran for president. I would run on a massive education reform platform that was about, like, schools are going to be the center of our society. We are going to pay teachers a ton more. We're gonna enter into a grand bargain with teachers' unions where, like, they back off, you know, protecting crappy teachers, and, like, we're gonna professionalize and pay more to teach. Like, we're just going to put schools at the center of communities. We're going to build schools, not prisons, and we're going to, you know, this is how we're going to lead the world is through education. And we're going to change America by making us the best place for public education in the world.
"And schools are also going to be places where people can get like minor health care and we're going to do ESL training and all kinds of other trainings and things in the summer. Like whatever you make a big pitch to something new that like leads to some aspiration you weave in some abundance here and there right where it's not scarce. We can't, we can still do big things, and I guess I mean that the audacious part of bold leadership, having some vision about how we make the country a better place instead of arguing over like different modes of how you might tweak the health care system, which I don't think is where voters are now. Like they feel like things are in a tough place. They want to see big bold things and Trump did that.
"[Right] now it's all the extra legal stuff is a problem, and if I were a Democrat I'd be like, 'Hey guys, we can do big things in this country without breaking the law. We can do it by and include Congress, and have checks and balances.'"
One trait of good leadership is to surround yourself with personnel who have strengths where you have weaknesses. This is why I would nominate cabinet members who are experts in their fields. I think we could pull this off if Democrats were to get a super majority in both houses in 2026 and hold them in 2028.