I can tell you a skill our next Democratic president is going to need to have

[Takket]

They are REALLY going to need eloquence and the ability to rally people to service. The government has been gutted of career professionals willing to serve their country and replaced by utter incompetence.

It is going to be a hard sell to convince people to come back and restore the institutions that made us world leaders. I can't speak for everyone but if my life were upended, and I had to go out and get a job in the private sector, I would be pretty hard pressed to return to Federal work when I know 4 years later the next stooge this country elects can just fire everyone again.

We need a "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" to try and rebuild what has been lost, along with a promise to create some sort of legislation to protect Federal workers in the future from termination without (legitimate) cause.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

1. You bring up a VALID and scary point

HOW do we return to a sense of stability and normalcy when this fetid presidency is in the rear view mirror?

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Joe Neguse

about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Neguse

[some_of_us_are_sane]

3. Thank you for introducing me

to such an able and upright man!

We need MORE OF THESE introductions to men and women who MIRROR the ideals this country was founded on. (Not the demagogues and the 'rich elite hangers-on' who now populate Washington and MUCH of the private, monied sector that now control our constitutional republic.)

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I have been seeing so many clips of him in Congressional inquiries/meetings/whatevertheyare and he is BRILLIANT

while also being personable.

[yorkster]

8. Joe Neguse is really impressive.

[betsuni]

5. The "status-quo"-as-an-insult-for-Democrats people can knock it off now. No more status quo. There's your revolution.

Governments are there to keep to the lights on and the hard work of keeping things going, not inspire you on your personal moral purity journey and tuck you into beddy-boo.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

7. Why not BOTH????

Yes, these are important necessary functions in a society.... but we need ASPIRATION and inspiration to achieve all that is promised in the BILL OF RIGHTS and the Constitution, which begins, "We the people"....not, "We the laborers

Otherwise, it seems 'robotic' and soul-leeching....at least to THIS DU member.

[LuvLoogie]

6. The skill to exact retribution without remorse upon the operatives of the racist regime.

See who has been cashing Nazi checks.

Give social justice and progressives reappropriated ICE money. Mortgage and school loan forbearance/forgiveness, zero interest college loans for their kids. The same healthcare congress gets.

People will be lining up to serve, anyway, in defiance of the racist destruction.

[gab13by13]

9. Eloquence is not high up on my list,

Democrats need to think outside the box, don't nominate a politician, nominate a Malcolm Nance-like person, a military person, a prosecutor.

Nominate someone who speaks bluntly not eloquently and we will have a blow out.

Our politicians have failed to hold the Republican criminals to account, nominate a tough son-of-a-bitch who will rally the masses.

[IronLionZion]

10. It's very telling that the cuts were in programs that help people

while increasing funding for killing people. ICE has a larger budget than the entire Russian military. They managed to hire a lot of people quickly somehow. Hmm... haven't heard much from the Proud Boys lately. Jan 6ers too. I can think of some dudes who need to be held accountable for crimes.

[rampartd]

11. i stuck with government service for the stability and security

trump has shot that to hell.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. I'd say charisma and plain speaking.

That's what charmed the MAGAts.

You have to be an entertainer as well as a politician.

Re-watch A Face in the Crowd with Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, and Walter Matthau. It explains a lot.