FIRST, start with single payer national health care...and stop the obscene subsidy from taxpayers to Walmart's "health care plan" (ie State Medicaide) for their low wage workers...
Find a way to get health care costs into line with other nations...so Granny doesn't have to sneak into Canada for her pills! At 15% of GDP the US is TRIPLE the global average on health spending...and no...the "results" are actually worse! If you want something done...go to Thailand!
SECOND, lets start talking about the Trade Deficit...and what it really means. If that means some "protectionism"...rather than the "eventual" collapse of the dollar... Maybe we should talk about that sooner rather than later...? So we don't have another "aftermath" problem...!
THIRD, lets means test Social Security and start funding it out of the general fund...and reduce the Battleship subsidy to the Pentagon...who are still fighting 20th Century Wars...and can't even control Baghdad... A sad condition for a "super-power." The current level of "war funding" is way out of line...and some of that could be cut with no decrease in security...indeed it might increase security since we'd still have the power to destroy the world several times over.
THE BEST THING DEMOCRATS CAN DO IS START DEFINING THE TERMS OF THE DEBATE...AND MOVE THE NATIONAL DEBATE TO REAL ISSUES...NOT THOSE SAD WEDGE ISSUES THAT FINALLY BROUGHT DOWN THE REPUBLICANS
