Project Logic Ga

We should have a Thanksgiving look at the Democrats running for president—a “feel of the field” if you will.  Next Generation Democrats must cook up a meal that satisfies the whole family.  Unlike a feast in a conservative Republican “Make America Sedate Again” home, we must please a range of taste and interests or else.

The objective of the Democratic ticket is to remove President Trump and maybe tie his drama/mess to those who put him there.  So, the cooks looming over shoulders in the kitchen are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams…with Trump peeping in the window.

Biden is ready now and a safe bet for success.  At times, he seems old.  The heartland wants change but Trump is so wild that change from him is a welcomed “plain.”  Of course, the Whole Food shoppers in the family like the Progressive agendas of Sanders and Warren.  Sanders is really an advocate like Ralph Nader and Jesse Jackson; presidents should be bridge-builder/governors.  Warren’s wealth tax and erasing student loan debt sounds good to the family but her healthcare plan “for all” troubles those happy with their current situations.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg is as smart as a whip but Cory Booker was mayor of a bigger city AND is a U.S. Senator.  Kamala Harris won statewide several times in a nation called California but seems a little happy at times.  The game changer could be which Black leader is selected as Vice President—Booker, Harris, Abrams, Andrew Gillumman or Deval Patrick.  Black America is studying Mayor Pete’s relationship with our community in South Bend while gauging his reception with southern church folks.

Yes, at Thanksgiving dinner, dilemmas come up.  The family divide is often between old school and new school.  We have boujee kinfolks who are solidly in the middle class—the Black Elite.  Oh, the Republicans should have cannibalized them with Michael Steele but they chose to go the Neo Confederate route.  The foundation of the Democrat Party is hard-working, clean-cut brothers and sisters.  We are talking about military enlisted personnel, federal workers, labor union members and plant workers.  Of course, we need to mention the hip hop culture young people who put “being down” in front of employability (‘no what I’m sayin’).

A primary issue (pun intended) concerns the idea that Progressives in the Blue party break their necks to help the lowest income Americans but those struggling families don’t necessarily take responsibility for their actions or vote.  Then, Sanders or someone similar promises the pie in the sky and if he isn’t the nominee, they stay home on election day.  Thanksgiving dinner is often awkward because the family spent the last year addressing problems created by one family member while positive family members were ignored.  Did Hillary let her liberal staff pull her away from rural Americans?  Did she really skip Wisconsin?  Mayor Pete and Senator Amy Klobuchar are trying with agriculture issues and rural development.

We thank Stacey Abrams for raising a zillion dollars alone.  In the past the Democrat campaign industry would raise money and spend it with their friends on T.V. ads.  Abrams put that money on the street with Get Out The Vote grassroots efforts and she has learned to use more locals next time.

We wish we could take elements and aspects of everyone mentioned above and create a composite candidate—add some Julian Castro in the mix.  The old saying goes “nothing brings you more pleasure and pain than family.”  The Democrats and Republicans shouldn’t feel like two different families on Thanksgiving.  Then again, if the Native Americans knew then what we know now…go back to Europe might have been the chant.  Around some GOP Thanksgiving tables next week, some conservatives will admit privately that Trump is dangerous to this nation and plain Jeb Bush looks pretty good right about now.