they want certain things but they will settle for certain less things. they want to be protected on social security, on medicare for themselves when they get older. they want medicare. when their parents get alzheimer's or something like that, dementia, they want medicaid, they want the basics and obamacare. they want the basics now. they want to be able to have a situation where their kids can get a job near enough to them that they can come home on weekends once in a while. they don't want them to go off to california or silicon valley or new york they want their kids to stick around. that's all the american voters want and need in keeping their kids around. they are not greedy. they are not like trump. i think if democrats understand they don't have to be the latest avant-garde social thing, socialist thing. they want the basics. go read "the last hurrah" again.