Have You Read the 2016 Democratic Party Platform?

[MineralMan]

Bueller? Beuller? Anyone?

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/papers_pdf/117717.pdf

There's a lot of talk about goals here, but few seem to realize that the platform adopted at our 2016 Democratic Party Convention pretty much calls for the same things people claim they want.

That makes me think that most people didn't actually read that platform. Maybe they should. You'll find it at that link. It's a good read. We're all working toward the same goals, folks.

Let's work together toward them, shall we?

[Gothmog]

1. I have a copy from the National Convention

[MineralMan]

2. Excellent! I just wanted to link to it

so everyone could actually find it easily and read it. It's a pdf, so it's easy to print, too. It's fairly long.

[Gothmog]

3. I read the platform before voting on it.

It is here somewhere with my national convention materials

[MineralMan]

4. Thanks for being a delegate!

I'm envious, but simply can't afford the trip, so I've never pushed to become a delegate above the state convention level.

[Gothmog]

9. It was not cheap and there was some real conflict

My youngest was my guest and she had fun at the convention area and had a guest pass for the first night

[ismnotwasm]

5. Yes--and it reaffirms why I'm a Democrat

[MineralMan]

7. Yup. I just get the idea that a lot of people

didn't read it, base on what they say here.

[yardwork]

6. Let's keep this kicked.

[MineralMan]

8. I'm for that.

[chowder66]

10. Now we just need to boil these down to 140 characters and tweet them daily. Run ads that

encapsulate our platform, get talking points from them to sprinkle in interviews and press conferences, etc.

[MineralMan]

11. Sometimes, it takes more words to say what you mean.

tl;dr is not an excuse for not knowing what our party's platform said and claiming what you want wasn't in it. Too many people are doing just that.

[chowder66]

12. I get that but in this day and age

it seems that you have to pound the message into the atmosphere for people to even start the process of thinking.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. I think the problem was that the media wasn't interested in policy in 2016

Harvard study: Policy issues nearly absent in presidential campaign coverage

...
The analysis indicates that substantive policy issues have received only a small amount of attention so far in the 2016 election coverage. To be sure, “the wall” has been in and out of the news since Donald Trump vowed to build it. Other issues like ISIS and free trade have popped up here or there as well. But in the overall context of election coverage, issues have played second fiddle. They were at the forefront in the halls of the national conventions but not in the forefront of convention-period news coverage. Not a single policy proposal accounted for even 1 percent of Hillary Clinton’s convention-period coverage and, collectively, her policy stands accounted for a mere 4 percent of it.

Trump’s policies got more attention, but not until after the Democratic convention, when he made headlines several days running for his testy exchange with the parents of a slain Muslim U.S. soldier.

That exchange sparked a “controversy,” which is sure to catch reporters’ attention. We’ve seen that time and again this election year. Past elections were not much different, featuring everything from Jimmy Carter’s “lust in my heart” Playboy interview in 1976 to Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” statement in 2012. None of these controversies was predictive of anything that happened in the presidency during the subsequent four years, but their coverage during the campaign overshadowed nearly every policy proposal put forth by the candidates.

“Medialities” is the label political scientist Michael Robinson has given to such controversies. Journalists find them irresistible, as political scientist W. Lance Bennett noted when looking at Trump’s birther claims. When Trump in 2011 questioned whether President Obama was a native-born American, his statement was seized upon by cable outlets and stayed in the headlines and on newscasts for days.

http://theconversation.com/harvard-study-policy-issues-nearly-absent-in-presidential-campaign-coverage-65731

Trump was great at seizing the media spotlight, and thus encouraging the people who leaned towards him to turn out. The media couldn't sell so many ads with coverage of policy, so they ran with the circus instead.

[yardwork]

17. I agree!

[drray23]

13. thank you for posting this.

I was about to do the same after I saw a post a few hours ago listing what we should include in our platform. I thought, wait is not it what we already had ? Sure enough, went to Hillary Clinton's website and it was all listed there with minor variations one way or another.

[MineralMan]

14. Yes, I saw the same post, which stimulated this one.

People really misunderstood in 2016. More's the pity.

[Trial_By_Fire]

15. One change is the 'universal health care' section.

The public option and Medicare 55 and over needs to be changed to Medicare for All.

[Hekate]

18. Kick. Rec. Bookmark.

[ismnotwasm]

19. Another kick

[Tom Rinaldo]

20. K&R n/t