The Dworkin Report: The Enormous Gaetz Report Scandal Hidden in Plain Sight

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49. Yep. It is HOW we say it, but also WHAT we say.

No small ideas. There are plenty of bureaucrats to take care of the small issues. The issue is to get elected so that we can direct the bureaucrats to deal with the smaller issues the right way.

But you can't win elections talking about minutia. Ted usually talked about very consequential, bedrock issues, and with a passion that earned him the title of "Lion of the Senate".

Bernie talks about a lot of the really important issues. Unfortunately, his age and accent (and an almost total lack of support from other Dems) kept Bernie from being as persuasive as he needed to be. Ted was much like Bernie, in that he was never afraid or apologetic to discuss the big issues. And Ted had a more ingratiating oratorical style.

It is a problem when the only ones we can name who can be compared with people like Ted are Bernie, Elizabeth, AOC and a couple of others. There are many other "progressives" who are fine, honorable, decent people, but they tend to react to the issue of the moment rather than advocating for the really important big issues, mostly connected with the systematic economic unfairness we have today.

We need to get a leader who will be out front on the issues that have Americans so angry they are willing to vote for a mobster, rapist, serial liar. We must not dismiss what Americans told us to our faces last month.