Florida morning 1

I am on vacation. I woke up a couple hours later than my norm, had tea, went swimming in dad's condo's shared pool under a warm Florida sky,with birds chirping, mostly blue sky and a light breeze. I thought about politics, punching Nazis, torture, and drones bombing civilian populations overseas. So, your usual morning thoughts. I came home and made myself some more tea, a toasted english muffin, and eggs, which I am now eating.

I'm thinking about strategy. I'm thinking that the Democratic party is still the best vehicle for my views in this country. I'm thinking that my conservative friends probably don't run into the people I run into on twitter - the 'women's place is in the kitchen' crowd that makes it hard to take Republicans en masse seriously online.  I'm thinking about Toby from West Wing saying 'they'll like us when we win' about appeasing your enemies. I'm thinking about whether I should confront my fellow liberals who say 'not my president,' because it is corrosive to democracy, and we can't let him be corrosive to our democracy, we can't, we mustn't. 

I'm thinking how do we stand together (answer: just like yesterday) while also reaching out to the middle of the country and saying, yes, it is your country, this can be a disagreement between honorable friends instead of a fight between lying enemies. I think abortion is more central to the debate than most people are willing to admit - especially whenever women come up. I don't think it's a very warm place to be a pro-life Democrat these days, or a pro-Choice Republican. How do you be agreeable in defeat without conceding defeat on everything? 

Questions for debate. The floor is open.