What I would like to see the Democratic Party stand for.

Policies to create more affordable housing. Talk about zoning, planning, building and so forth. Encourage local governments to reduce sprawl, less restrictive "single family" zoning. This also to address climate change.

Improve our transportation system. Try and reduce America's dependency on private automobiles. Maybe lower the percent of commutes, by car, to 75% versus the current approx. 92% by car (so I've read).

Increase use of public transit, bicycles, walking and telecommuting. This will reduce traffic congestion and the need to devote precious urban land to parking.

Continue to promote electric cars for those who still insist on driving. Try and figure out a cleaner fuel for air travel. Serve more locations with passenger rail. Provide more frequent train service to places, like Spokane, where the only passenger service arrives late at night.

Place less emphasis on the costly pipedream of high speed rail, in USA, due to lack of available rite-of-way in congested areas.

Low population areas (like Eastern Washington) often have rail corridors that are under used while high population areas (like Seattle to Vancouver, BC) don't have land for new rail lines; especially land free of road crossings. High speed rail is a catch 22.

Resist Republican efforts to dismantle affordable healthcare.

Promote healthy lifestyles, diets and exercise.

Discuss immigration as a population issue. It's related to 8 billion people on this planet with many seeking refuge from brutal situations overseas.

Try to promote more livable situations worldwide with democratic reforms, birth control, human rights, women's rights, gay rights and so forth.

Realize the benefits of immigrates as labor and talent, but also think about the burden of increasing population on affordable housing, infrastructure and so forth.

Support reproductive rights, but try and emphasize the ideal goal of abortion being rare. Every child should be wanted. We need good birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancy and good social services welcoming people into this world. Realize that population growth effects the environment.

Support the rights of LGBTQ people. Try to accommodate transgender rights, but have rational, non punitive, discussions about the costs of care (if that is a big factor) effects on sports and so forth. Recognize that understanding of gender is evolving given new science.

Place less emphasis on people fighting over who has been treated the worst. Avoid battles between various groups which one could call "resentment politics." Avoid calling for reparations over historic wrongs from past generations. Realize that life will never be totally fair, but try to continue incrementally moving toward fairness.

Try not to fall for the strategy of "divide and conquer" as those in power (for instance Republicans) often exploit resentments between groups to divide people.

As for the age issue (given talk about the age of many in government) I would reduce institutional reliance on seniority in Congress and other institutions.

Goals have been set, internationally, to reduce carbon emissions, but countries can't seem to find ways to follow the goals. Maybe we need to set goals that help us attain the bigger, more theoretical goals of reducing carbon emissions.

How about a goal to reduce private car commutes, in USA, to 75% versus 92%?

Yes, it might create some economic displacement, for instance in auto dependent industries. That is likely a big reason why national politicians don't touch it. Not only would it disrupt auto manufacturing companies and unions, but it would also disrupt drive-in businesses that depend on the way things have been done for the past few decades.