'Bohemian Like You' remains a cross generational song.

If on a winter’s night a traveler reshaped how I looked at literature.

The 2 minute video of everyone booing Trump at the football game 7 1/2 times.

I know if I was the richest man in the world, I might invest in hiring a subject matter expert to at least check that the descriptions of my so called favourites were accurate. Then again, more and more, it feels like Elon has developed a public humiliation kink.

It's really that simple. It just seems complicated because it involves a hell of a lot of hard work and commitment. Change comes from the people in the party, and if you're not in it, your voice and ideals and desires don't make it into the conversation.

You build up a progressive energetic state party looking for a fight and embrace candidates that reflect that, you'll get the things you want. You do nothing and pronounce that the Democrats needs to come to you on bended knee and beg for your vote, others will decide who runs, not you.

There are a hundred processes, factors and elements that eventually build up to the tip of the spear, which is the elected official. That's where a great deal of the power lies and also where the governing principles are shaped. If that is made up of cautious moderates, that's what they nominate.

That's why getting involved and driving change is so important because without that, can you be surprised they're listening to the donor class first? Or the political consultants? Politics at its heart is a machine. It has pieces that drive other pieces and needs fuel. It doesn't simply happen.

But things were won. There was a chance that no food and no flights for Thanksgiving could have turned on the Democrats, and they are the minority party right now. Once again, I still don't think it was the right move, but the calculations make a certain amount of sense, even if I don't agree.

After several deep dives with political sources I trust like, say, Josh Marshall, there is a lot of inside baseball involved in this deal which makes it look like less of a capitulation. I think think it wasn't handled properly, the optics are terrible, and it's a real blow to Tuesday's momentum.

It was driven by the new Republican voters flooding in or those present aligning themselves with the new direction. Even Trump's dominance was strengthened by that flood of new members, which he happily leveraged mob boss style to bring the rest of the GOP to heel. The people who show up decide.

And the cynical extremism of that era paved the way for MAGA and the subservience to Donald Trump, under who they have been able to embrace their openly racist and fascist factions of the base. Each time, save Trump, the re-alignment did not come from orders of the GOP leadership.

The second was the Gingrich re-alignment which focused on hyper-partisanship and an unwillingness to engage whenever possible with Democrats, directly supported first by the raise of right wing talk radio and later FOX. The next was the Tea Party, an astro-turfed billionaire funded takeover.

In my lifetime, the GOP has gone through four different transformations, each one laying the tracks for the next, and each one the result of new blood flooding the party and seizing control of it. The first was the Reagan re-alignment, starting the end of the Southern Democrats.

Reforming the Democratic Party does not happen by exterior pressure. That may cause the odd temporary course correction, but it doesn't change the overall direction. That's done by reforming or replacing the people who make up the organization, and it can't be done on the outside.

There's a line attributed to 'The West Wing' but it's origins are much older which is 'politics are decided by the people who show up'. The Democratic Party may be an institution, but it's also an organization. Which means it is defined by the people in it doing the work on different levels.

Barack Obama was a generational political talent, but his core ability was an almost effortless ability to inspire. Not just in speeches and rallies, but translating that inspiration into vital action; volunteers, funding, canvassing, all those really hard things that successful campaigns do well.

They want to love their candidates. They want them to embody everything they believe, even if that means they can't win. They want the white knight that comes out of no where and delivers them without effort. It's like Obama permanently broke their brains and anything less is a betrayal.