Democrats are not going to win because we’re nicer than Republicans, we’re not going to win because Chuck Schumer ate cheeseburgers with Donald Trump, and we’re sure as shit not going to win by coddling moderate voters.

If we’re going to win back the Senate and White House in 2020, it’ll be for the reason Truman predicted he would win in 1948 — “because they’re wrong and we’re right.”

Republicans are never going to stop playing hardball, no matter how many fat pitches we throw right over the plate. On that note, here are some curveballs Democrats could throw the next time we control the House, Senate, and White House:

reduce the number of Supreme Court Justices from 9 to 7, last in first out

admit Puerto Rico and D.C. as states

increase the number of Supreme Court Justices from 7 to 9, appoint two new Justices

guarantee healthcare, housing, education (pre-k through a bachelor’s degree), and employment as rights

ban all private campaign finance and establish a public funding mechanism that provides equal resources to any qualified candidate able to gain a minimum number of verified signatures from within the district they seek to represent

pass a Green New Deal that dramatically transforms the US economy and inspires a global race to zero carbon emissions

create a negative income tax for taxpayers in the two lowest brackets

Transformative as these policies may be, it is precisely because implementing even one or two them would have such massive implications that Democrats will avoid them altogether.

Instead, we’ll likely end up content with a watered down version of Medicare-for-all and Elizabeth Warren’s plan to create a federal charter for corporations with over $1 billion in revenue and require 40% of corporate board members to be elected by the company’s employees.

Any of these policies, moderate or bold, will at least be a step in the right direction. Yet, for some it’s difficult to avoid wondering whether they’re all just attempts to “plug holes in a dying capitalist system,” as fictional White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler said the “far-left” saw the New Deal.

While I’m eager to go as far as supporting policies that would dramatically reign in capitalism, I’m hesitant to say definitively that we ought to overthrow it entirely, nor do I have a clear idea of what that would even look like in the United States. I suspect many other progressive young people feel similarly.

Considering we can’t count on the current crop of dinosaur Democrats like Joe Manchin and Dianne Feinstein to implement the reforms necessary to salvage some sort of sustainable, semi-inhabitable post climate apocalyptic society, these lingering questions will likely inform much of the political debate we engage in.

Youth turnout has been on an overall upward trend lately, as we gradually come to the realization that voting maters. Eventually, once a critical mass of baby boomers have begun to die en masse and millennial turnout hits a high enough point, we will become the largest voting block in the United States.

The problem is, if we’re going to ensure that anyone but the top 1% have a shot at surviving the rising tides of warming oceans, annual once a century storms, and increasing authoritarianism that face us and future generations, it’s going to take transformative leadership on the part of the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world.

Millennials should probably get going on that, because before we know it we’re going to experience what Kurt Vonnegut described as “true terror” — which is “to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”