Stop trying to conjure a "perfect" candidate now

I'm 48 years old. I've been supporting and voting for Democrats since 2000, so i am very familiar with crushing, dispiriting defeat. If there's is ONE thing I have learned is that NO ONE knows what the next winning candidate will look like. NO ONE. We don't know where that candidate will be from. He or she might be a governor, or a Senator. From the South, the West, Hawaii, wherever. WE DON'T KNOW. We can't rule anyone out and we can't get all starry eyed over who looks good to us now.

Don't worry about a candidate. Worry about ORGANIZATION. Put your energy into building the infrastructure and systems that will build us victory. I don't know if Gavin Newsome can win an election. I don't know If Josh Shapiro or some other Midwest white can either. Can a woman like Gretchen Whitmore win? AOC?I DON'T KNOW. No one does, so we should all stop pretending.

I do know that whoever our candidate is, they are going to need a huge robust machine behind them. Here's a secret about the Democratic party , even when it wins, it's weak. Meaning that it's ripe for a takeover. If you're upset with how the Democrats are doing things, then GO TO YOUR LOCAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY MEETINGS. I guarantee that for most of you, your local Dem Party is probably a Dozen regular people.

If all the Bernie people in 2016 had actually started going to Democratic party meetings in 2016, they would control the whole thing now.

So build a party, build an infrastructure that can win. Push the message you want. If more populism is the answer, then get involved and SAY THAT LOUDLY. Then whoever the Party candidate is, they will know what the party wants and they will act accordingly. Obama ascended in 2007 because he was anti-iraq War.

That's it, that's the deal. If you want something different, YOU MUST GET INVOLVED. We need less punditry and more activism. You can't create some perfect candidate. All we can do is build a machine our candidate can use.