Democrats being just a big city party for some groups but not others has already failed.

[Moostache]

29. You have nailed THE issue of the 21st century...

JOBS and the way we think of them is a 20th century concept that is painfully dying off. It started BEFORE the great recession, but that event crystallized the future when the "economy" recovered, profits recovered, even productivity 'recovered'....though I would argue THAT never really dropped....what never recovered was JOBS.

We are steaming head long into an era of surplus population. Mechanical and computer automation is on track to displace up to 50% of ALL JOBS in the next 35 years. This is going to be as profound a paradigm shift as humanity has seen since the dawn of the Industrial revolution and it is going to collide head long with the ravages of climate change and climate refugees. We have precious little time to raise the alarm on this and start meaningful discussions of just how this is going to impact humanity or it will be too late...I fear we are already inching towards the abyss even today.

When 50% of ALL people are unable to work because there is no work to be done, what then? The answer IMHO is education and research...we must train the species to value KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING above CONSUMPTION and PROFITS. The world is about to undergo another seismic shift...unless we want to follow the path of the 20th century and rerun the wars and conflicts of that century with unimaginably more destructive weaponry, we better start coalescing around a new paradigm and we better include as many people as possible...but that precludes people who do not want to come along....it does not mean we bend the party to include more religious dogma like opposing marriage equality or fundamental rights to control one's own body....it does not mean that we coddle the people who would say the world is merely 6,000 years old as if they are not crazy....it does not mean that we join in the racist chorus of "ALL LIVES MATTER" as a rejoinder to the aggrieved minorities...it does not mean that we give an inch on the RIGHT of citizens to obtain basic health care WITHOUT INSURANCE as the middle man...

Disaster is looming in the near future. The only way we make the coming disaster a survivable event instead of a human catastrophe and extinction level event is by joining together with the rest of the civilized world in an effort to expand and protect human rights for everyone and everywhere. There is no imposition of outdated values and norms or memes that can achieve this...this is NOT a clash of civilizations or east versus west...this is future humanity or extinction. It really IS that dire...