Are Progressive and Centrist Views In Conflict or in Concert?

So the Democratic Party is about to do some soul searching. I don't have a lot of the answers, but I think that this is a start.

For the first time in recent memory, the Democratic Party was unified and got out to vote. Fell short, yes, but got together and organized.

Can we hold that together? Only if the Progressives and Centrists can come together and craft a new unifying agenda. These two wings must come up with a single, unified ideal. They must stay together by finding out that upon which we agree and then putting that together into a coherent message. A "mission statement" if you will.

So that's the challenge, what is the mission statement of this unified base? What do we agree on? I'm not going to try and figure out which few issues we need to "switch" on to pick up a couple of states. I'm talking about taking this amazingly organized group of people and LISTENING to them, finding the true common ground based on our shared values. Fuck the Republicans for stealing that word. We won back patriotism from them in this election, we can win back values too.

Comment away, I'll try and pull together what I see is the same and draft up a unified one from this group and post it.