Dear John,

President Biden has clinched the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Voters in the remaining primary states still have an opportunity to weigh in on his agenda, however.

And it’s important. So many people — including Democrats — are quite depressed about the election this year. And why? Because they sense we’re not talking about the things that matter most. If we do not change course, there’s a very good chance that Donald Trump could win in November.

The core need of the majority of Americans is fundamental economic reform; “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” having become “a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.” In order to win in 2024, Democrats must offer to change that. Short term profit maximization for huge corporate interests has become a false god in America, an economic governing principle that has replaced democracy itself as America’s new bottom line. It is the task of this generation to end that trend.

With 39% of Americans now reporting that they regularly skip meals to pay their rent, and millions literally selling their blood plasma to pay bills, a message that the economy is doing well is not the message that will inspire people to vote Democrat in 2024. We need an Economic Bill of Rights: improved Medicare for All, tuition free college and tech school, paid family leave, guaranteed sick pay, and a guaranteed living wage. We need a U.S. Department of Peace, a Department of Children and Youth to deal with the many and dangerous risks to our kids, and a mass mobilization for a just transition from a dirty to a clean economy. We also need a ceasefire in Gaza; the United States should stand for a robust commitment to the peace, safety and security of both Israelis and Palestinians.

For the Democrat to win in 2024, people need to feel that yes, if they vote for the Democrat it will materially improve their lives over the next four years.

The American economy delivers true prosperity to only twenty per cent of our citizens. We need a President who is willing to stand up to what FDR referred to as the “economic royalists” that have turned our government into a system of legalized bribery. We need to push back against the corporate overlords who now exercise a system of economic tyranny by which a few keep getting rich and the majority have a harder and harder time just getting by.

The American people have been trained to expect too little.

Now is the time to make clear that such things as universal health care, tuition free college, and a guaranteed living wage— all provided to the citizens of every other advanced democracy in the world — should be provided to every American citizen as well. The last fifty years have seen a fifty trillion-dollar transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% of our people to the top 1%, and the message of the Democratic Party should be, “That stops now.”

That is how we will beat Donald Trump, and it is also how we will heal the country. Wherever we’re still on the primary ballot — Maryland, Kentucky, Oregon, Idaho, D.C., New Mexico, South Dakota, Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands — voters can still say that. They can vote their truth. They can use their voice.

And that’s why we’re still doing this. We’re doing it because it matters. Thank you so much for doing it with me.

With love,

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