Ideas I would recommend for 2018 and 2020.
1)Social Justice/Anti-Oppression-keep that, and STRENGTHEN it. All of it. The only change I'd make there would be in tone-that is, to find a way of framing the duties of white America as responsibility to end the injustices and heal the wounds, not so much guilt over the past. If we frame it as responsibility, it's a way to create the consciousness of being part of making things better, not shame over things that happened before they were born. Most white people are beneficiaries of oppression...but they didn't personally create it and guilt-based language(justifiable as it is on a deep moral level)doesn't bring them in to do what they should be doing. The language of guilt doesn't work-the language of responsibility and problem-solving and healing can.
2)Foreign Policy-make it about defending our own territory from attack, and pull back as much as possible from military intervention elsewhere. We have spent the last thirteen years witnessing the fact that military intervention in the Arab/Muslim world is futile. A lot of voters would LIKE to see us pull back from endless war, while still protecting ourselves, which is what the military SHOULD be for.
3)Immigration-if it must be better controlled, control it by supporting anti-austerity politics in the countries people immigrate from(particularly in the Americas); if it is poverty, inequality and desperation that leads people to come here, than it's not in our national interest to do anything to increase poverty, inequality and desperation.
4)Economic policy-If "the old jobs aren't coming back" to places like the Upper Midwest, then it is a national priority to invest(including advocating state investment if nothing else will work in the short-term due to "market forces"
in creating new, high-paying, dignity-enhancing jobs that create a sense of community and hope in the places where they exist. We should be pushing for state and national co-op banks, for measures to make it easier for workers to re-employ themselves by re-opening enterprizes their former bosses closed(and using them to make other products as necessary) As other leaders once said(falsely) "no child left behind", we should now be saying(sincerely) "no worker left behind". And it doesn't matter if we don't have the votes to get such measures through Congress right now...we need to introduce them and to use the acts of introducing them to organize people for continuing action.
5) Trade policy-if we negotiate any MORE trade agreements, make it clear that we will not agree to any language in the agreements that treats wage scales, social benefits, labor laws, environmental protection laws and product safety regulations as "subsidies" that corporations can combat in international tribunals that mostly rule in favor of corporations and against people. It's not "protection" to have decent social values. Put labor, ethnic/religious/racial minority, consumer and environmental representatives on the negotiating teams, so that the global majority has some of the say on these agreements.
If we can make things like that part of our offer for the future, we can make turnout soar and create the anti-oppression, pro-inclusion society that ALL of us on the left support.
Offered in the hope of future victory.
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Do we ignore our commitments to other nations? To our allies?
Frankly I think our national interests extend far beyond our physical borders, and it's kind of naive to view the world in the way you've described and try to come up with some grand policy based on that belief.
Imagine if Kennedy felt the way you do. We'd have Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba. "Hey! Not within our borders proper, so what the fuck, eh? Let 'er ride!"
Where do you guys come up with this stuff?? 
