Remembering the "Democratic" in The Democratic Party

I just had an op-ed published in the Falls Church News-Press about how the Democratic Party should organize around a national vision of deepening democracy:

"Here’s a proposal for what one of those fundamental principles could be: The Democratic Party should be the party of democracy. After decades of right-wing rule, we have forgotten how powerful an idea “democracy” can be. Today, democracy is understood in its shallow form: to many, it just means that the people can vote in elections for their government. But there is a deeper, more inspiring conception of democracy—one that its namesake party would be wise to revive.

Deep democracy begins with a faith in the creative power of ordinary citizens — a presumption that all of us, not just a select few, can participate in the co-creation of our nation. From this faith comes the pursuit of a government and economy that are not only for all people, but of and by all people, as well. To be a deep democrat is to believe that when we open up power to more people in more ways — when people have a say in the forces that govern their lives — we flourish as a nation. It is to define freedom not as freedom from government (as libertarians define it), but rather as Martin Luther King defined it: as “participation in power.”"

Read the full op-ed — Remembering the 'Democratic' in the Democratic Party — here:

https://fcnp.com/2018/09/13/guest-commentary-remembering-democratic-democratic-party/?fbclid=IwAR0aBLDWpVSvV2Y7mRZ6E3fj7ykzSaGmqYndZC5ku1PMzbF8lLH5Cqaky0Y