Roosters and owls and gold toilets and dinosaurs and hot dogs and out-of-order ICE machines and Bernie Sanders and lots and lots of signs, and seven million Lefties going, "Finally we got our shit together." Emphasis on the together.

Fun!

Also: one epic flash in the pan.

Let's face it: October 18 did not move the ball for the left one inch.

Here's what should have happened: Instead of organizing 2500 protest marches, we needed to huddle up into 250,000 brainstorm sessions all across the country to figure out an actual position – one that doesn't start with "No."

You can't just push back – time's done for that. You need a counter-narrative that meets Trumpian tyranny and annihilates it – because it has justice and science and humanity on its side.

Find that, articulate it, weaponize it. And then hit the streets with a protest that actually means something.

OUR PROMISE TO YOU:

We'll hire the most decent, smart and competent humans to run every leadership position in every government department. We'll make being a civil servant one of the most prestigious and desirable jobs any young person could ever aspire to — a values-based calling.

We'll make sure that every court case wraps up within a year. Same with health care: no civilized country makes its citizens suffer waiting interminably to be attended to.

Trump fired 300,000 federal workers; we go in the opposite direction, we'll hire a million and make it work.

Don't think this can't be done. The fact is that it's never really been tried.

Any party that gives this kind of intimate person-to-person service to its citizens — and does it well — is sure to win the next election.

We give birth to a new political party so audacious, so fucking radical and exciting that it whacks America — and maybe the world — into a new orbit.

Hot off the press is the newest report of the Global Flourishing Study — an ongoing project managed by Harvard and Baylor which checks in with hundreds of thousands of folks in 22 countries to see how they're doing. "Flourishing" might best be described as truly crushing this thing called life. You're happy, you're healthy, you're at peace. Once again this year, the Scandinavian countries came out on top.

The big surprise was who came out on the bottom: Japan, the UK, and the United States. Countries with among the highest GDP in the world.

WTF?