"I know." [View all]
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I'd like to start with a very brief and funny story about my early childhood. My late mother (Happy Mother's Day in Heaven, Mom) loved to tell of when she would take me to the grocery store as a toddler and the old ladies at the store would gather around and exclaim about how cute I was. This went on for a while, and I guess at about the age of three I had had enough. When someone told me I was cute, I calmly replied, "I know." Apparently it brought down the house.
Why am I bringing this up? Well, although I found this story extremely embarrassing throughout my childhood and teen-age years, I think I knew down deep that I had not been full of myself or conceited when I three. Instead, I had had a calm self-confidence. I never really achieved that again, but if you have it, it can be very powerful.
Lately, I have been wishing that the Democratics were more like me when I was three years old. I wish they could speak the truth briefly and calmly about what
they have achieved over the past few decades and how R's will take it all away.
Civil rights? We did that. Minimum wage and 40 hour work week? We did that. Reproductive rights? We did that. Marriage equality? We did that. Et cetera.
Talk about it. Take credit. And make comparisons and contrasts.
It is not bragging if it is true. And although most Dems are nice people who don't want to brag or come off as full of themselves, those rules are gone now. We are up against a monster who take all of that away. We need to have the same confidence and boldness that I had at the age of three. 
Why not? We've earned it.
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