While no one is looking
The Democratic post election discussion about tactics and positioning and reaching out toward the middle is still going on. I am failing to work up a plot line to deliver this idea with so just out with it.
There are things every human needs to stay alive. No one really wants to see people without them. The USofA is wealthy and powerful enough to insure every citizen has those things. That should be the base benefit of being a citizen of the nation.
There are those things we all agree we want. Since we all want them we should design to make them available uniformly.
A government should act affirmatively to see that no one is denied access, no one has unfair access, and to enhance everyone's access to the degree possible to these things.
You need to accurately delivery the progressive world view on the back of a post card. You need to do it so that it represents progressive intent, and it must be clear that one would benefit if it were the general guiding principle. And it must be memorable (or at least rememberable).
This fits. "Free markets" can fill the economic space created by desire, rather than rather vampirically building on actual, unavoidable need. And I know it's utopian as hell. But like I said, today no one is looking.
