I suggest the head Democrat strategists and spokesmodels as well as all of our candidates do a search on Amazon or Netflix or cable or whatever device they use to watch old movies on and try to line up a viewing of Albert Brook's "Lost In America" because it might be very pertinent to the content of future campaign speeches and talking points.
In the movie a couple named David and Linda Howard decide to throw off the corporate shackles they have toiled unhappily under for years. They liquidate their assets and sell their house and with these savings, which they lovingly refer to as the "nestegg", they decide to lead a nomadic and fancy free life touring the country in their Winnebago. Unfortunately, very early into the adventure Linda wanders into a Casino in Las Vegas and becomes mesmerized and reckless once exposed to the roulette wheel and manages to gamble away the life savings, the 'nest egg'.
Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies comes this snippet of how David reacts to Linda's shocking loss of all their money
DAVID: "Maybe I just didn't explain the nest egg well enough. It's a very sacred thing, the nest egg. And if you had understood the nest egg principle, as we will now call it in the first of many lectures that you will have to get because if we are ever to acquire another nest egg, we both have to understand what it means. ..."
LINDA: "I understand the nest egg."
DAVID: "Please do me a favor. Don't use that word, it's off limits to you. Only those in this house who understand it might use it. And don't use any part of it either. Don't use nest, don't use egg."
Future Democratic speechwriters and candidates might want to bear "the nest-egg principle" in mind when start talking about their policies and values, because the Democrats have also recently tossed out a few sacred nest eggs.
Democrats may no longer refer to the previous sacred tenets of "transparency" and "accountability". We may not demand those traits from either ourselves or others. Those terms no longer exist in our lexicon. As a party we need to collectively excise them and strike them out from any speech or talking point or appearance where they might appear out of habit and tradition, because they will only incite snickers of derision and accusations of hypocrisy. And FOIA requests are just stupid pieces of paper that we can all ignore freely in the future right? Right?
Good, glad we're all in agreement.