David Pakman

If you block it, you're going to have to explain why.

And what I believe is just as important as the platform itself is not falling for the same old crap that kills these initiatives.

Don't wrap it in partisan packaging.

The moment this is framed as a progressive anti-corruption plan, you're going to lose the people you're trying to reach.

It can't be about owning the other side.

It's got to be.

Listen, we are the people.

We represent the people.

There's insiders who are protected.

They shouldn't be.

And so the language has to shift

away from moralizing and lecturing and this sort of thing.

We're not reeducating people.

We're just going, hey, we've identified a problem.

We're the only ones with with a plan here.

Finally.

This is tough for the left, OK?

We can't let the anti-corruption message get watered down with a laundry list of other proposals.

So it's got to be we're going to deal with the corruption.

I feel like, well, we're going to deal with the corruption with some climate tax credits.