Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

Fear of change would be the R's strategy against a progressive like Warren or -- gasp -- a socialist like Bernie Sanders.

They'll paint any left-of-center Democrat as a dangerous extremist, and use fear to rally their base to the polls.

What the Democratic Party establishment -- and the propagators of conventional wisdom -- ignore is the fact that Barack Obama won in 2008 by running on the idea of change and Democratic voters turned out in droves because they were hopeful and felt they actually had something to vote FOR.

What the professional political operatives also ignore is the fact we are right on the issues -- on the economy, the environment, and the need to steer a course away from perpetual war.

And the reason they ignore all of that is, I strongly suspect, they're being paid to ignore it.