Since 18 28 are great Party has played a major role in participating in the political process that has produced what is arguably the greatest republic the world has ever seen.

We've produced generation after generation of leaders who, despite their faults, have helped established and maintain a country that has served in the main as a beacon of light and hope to the desperate masses of the world yearning in those immemorial words to breathe free over those nearly 200 years, we have all worked together, despite our differences, to produce a society where desperate want is a rarity where hard working men and women can produce a better future for themselves and their Children, and where the arbitrary disadvantages that have in the past held so many of us back and deprive others of our genuine talents, having good faith being continually reduced and minimized.

Nothing is perfect and neither is our country.

But we have built together a stable, secure, exciting, dynamic community and can all in consequence look forward to an even better tomorrow.

But we, as Democrats, have faltered in our duty in recent years.

We have allowed the discourse within our ranks to become increasingly dominated by a tiny, well organized and disruptive minority who have insisted evermore, stridently, that our culture is a tyrannical, destructive patriarchy and that we are not sovereign, responsible individual citizens capable of negotiating a shared and prosperous piece, but oppressive or oppressed minority group members defined above all by our sex, race, ethnicity and sexual preference.

We have failed as well to oppose the profoundly anti American claim that free speech is merely the means by which the powerful protect their interests.

And we have abandoned our invaluable commitment to and contract with the American working class who toiled mightily and often under conditions of extreme deprivation to perform the backbreaking labor so necessary to the creation of our stellar country.

In doing so, we betrayed and insulted our primary constituency, and we squandered the opportunity to elect the first woman to the position of the presidency of the United States.

Then, instead of taking responsibility for our well deserved failure and loss, we insisted upon vilifying those who defeated us.

Appropriately and honestly.

In the honorable democratic process were story.

We promised to return to the priorities that made our party great.

We promised to build and revitalize the vital infrastructure whose construction employees are tradespeople and whose use is available to all.

We promised to insist that our schools and those who conduct the research upon which their methods were founded abandoned their divisive ideology and teach our Children the knowledge and skills necessary to make them respectable, mature, productive, reliable citizens.

We promise, and have already taken productive steps to reduce the inevitable corruption that tends to take hold of even the greatest and most alert of states.

We're the Democrats.

We did not uphold our responsibility to the American people and were justly and properly sorry for that.

We promised to clean our house.

We promised to draw divisions between the key and time honored principles that unite us all and the divisive identity politics that is threatening to reduce us to an ignoble squabbling and dangerously polarized tribalism.

We're the Democrats.

We hope you'll forgive us.