What Democratic "group" are you?

[Bucky]

Unless you really can't help it, don't say you're "just a Democrat." I don't want that. Everyone has some aspect of the party to which they relate.

I mean that I'm a "union Democrat" and a "blue collar Democrat" and a "Clinton Democrat" and a "fair trade Democrat" and even an "online Democrat," but what I self identify with is being a "Clark Democrat." Certainly some people can have more than one identifying affiliation, but try to limit it to one or two.

What group within the Democrats do you identify with?

[Optimus Primestein]

1. erm...the socialist democrats?

:shrug:

[Vincardog]

2. Progressive Democrat and or one pissed Dem.

[charlyvi]

3. A New Deal Democrat.

In spirit anyway; I'm a bit too young timewise.

[TankLV]

39. New Deal Democrat here too.

RESTORE:

PROGRESSIVE taxation w/High estate taxes
National Health care
Minimum wage/LIVING wage
Strong corporate regulation
Strong banking limits and regulations
Social Security
Strong defense ONLY WHEN NEEDED

EVERYTHING that FDR did and tried to do - only STRONGER this time around.

[gater]

4. Radical!

I believe that we have not only the right to replace our government when it has ceased to represent us...we have the obligation to do so!!! And what was it that Malcom X said?...

[Bouncy Ball]

5. Um

I have no idea! Ummm......I'm not in a union, but I support them. Um..I'm white collar.

I'm a Dean Democrat?

Honestly I don't think I have a "group."

Texas Democrat?

[Philosophy]

6. I'm really anarcho-communist

Democrat is just the closest realistic affiliation I can find in this country.

[DrWeird]

7. I'm in the one with all the mad skills.

I'm kind of like their leader.

[coloradodem2005]

8. A dour Democrat?

[Left coast liberal]

9. Hard to pigeon hole more than half of Americans but...

I've always been a liberal/progressive democrat. And, to tell you the truth, I'm not particularly happy with the Democratic party right now.

I was and still am a Dean-iac. The Dems would make me pretty happy and SURPRISED if they choose Dean for DNC chair.

[ZombieNixon]

10. A "Robert Kennedy Democrat."

I'm a "liberal Democrat" (self-explanatory), a "middle-class Democrat" (I swear that my parents' income is the dead center of the income scale), a "white-collar Democrat" (my dad used to work for NASA and my mom's an author), a "young Democrat" (I'm 17) and a "Dean Democrat" (I supported Dean in the primaries), but RFK is who I tend to look to for political inspiration, and I think he would have been one of the greatest presidents we ever could have had.

[TwentyFive]

11. A Dean Democrat!

I like and respect both Clintons....but I think Howard Dean has the capacity to effect major change in the political arena.

I hope he is elected president some day.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

24. Dean Democrat too!

Howard Dean is just what our party-and our country-needs.

[welshTerrier2]

12. truthfully ... and i haven't totally given up hope ... yet ...

the group i most identify with is: ex-Democrats ... i feel their pain ...

barely hanging on these days ... gotta fight against the war in Iraq ... can't stand being "in" a Party that doesn't get that ...

gotta fight against our corporate-owned government ... not sure the Party will ever get that message ...

well, for now, i'm a "still here" Democrat ... but man, i don't hold out much hope for change here in the old neighborhood ...

[bvar22]

13. Wellstonian Democrat here

Senator Paul Wellstone kicking conservative ASS
shortly before his assassination!

[welshTerrier2]

17. what a great picture ...

inspirational !!! makes me want to kick some butt ... wish i had been there to hear him ...

[sweetheart]

14. I'm a kucinich democrat

Him and i agree 100% over platform.

Dennis Kucinich rocks.

[Stirk]

15. Labor.

Strengthening the poor and middle classes. That's everything from getting rid of Taft-Hartley to raising the minimum wage to national healthcare.

[imenja]

16. How about which group/s are you ACTIVE in?

Which action one takes is far more important than the labels you seem to find so important.

I work through MoveOn, volunteered extensively for the Kerry campaign and for Dean before that. I've just applied to the county DEC and am working with a local group to carry out election reform.

I've never been much for identity politics. Ideologically I'm left of the Democratic party, but with age--and the horror of the Bush administration--I've come to see the value of pragmatism.

I must say I find this tendency of DU members to identify themselves with whomever they supported in the 2004 primary to be very strange. That election is over. We do not know who the candidates will be in 2008, but we can pretty safely assume they will be quite different from this past election. Would it be possible to look forward rather than back?

[gater]

20. I've worked for Jerry Brown for pres., Cuomo for gov., Moynahan...

and quite a few local candidates and issues.

[rox63]

18. Liberal here

I'm a liberal first, and a Democrat second.

[doodadem]

19. Got dem Democrat blues.......

I was a total Clinton-ite (god I miss that man!), but kind of an agnostic Democrat. Now, I'm hard-core-liberal-activist-pissed-as-hell-bygod Democrat. I think the past 4 years have changed alot of people.......

[autorank]

21. Yellow Dog Democrat

Every Federal and State election ever--always voted Democrat.

Only one Republican vote -- the Democratic County Supervisor candidate wanted to build a road through my house (she lost, haha).

I vote the party not the person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gman]

32. Same here

I'd vote for a yellow dog if it ran as a democrat.

[autorank]

40. You are officially on my "buddy list."

[Gman]

43. Thanks!

I still have and often wear one of the original Texas Yellow Dog Democrat lapel pins. It's over 20 years old.

[Fovea]

22. I am a progressive,

so I am not sure if that makes me
a dem anymore.

Progressive Dems will get my vote over NeoCons
but a moderate Republican would get my
vote over a Zell Miller CrackerCrat or a Holy Joe DLCoCrat at this point.

At this point, no party has my loyalty.

[KamaAina]

26. Another progressive Dem

a moderate Republican would get my
vote over a Zell Miller CrackerCrat or a Holy Joe DLCoCrat at this point.

Where would you find said moderate repuke? Aren't they on the endangered species list? There are plenty of repukes who talk like moderates but very, very few (Chafee-RI) who vote like it.

[roguevalley]

23. anarcho/socialist/hardcore/civiljustice progressive democrat

Clark is my guy.

[poe]

25. 77 straight days of bombing- NATO, Clark and Clinton

personally wouldn't slavishly identify with any party, or any sect of a party. the range of political debate in the USA is so narrow and stultifying. there seems to be a lot of ''pop politics" looking for a celebrity to bring us to the halls of justice. not gonna happen. grass roots is the only way, always has been.
on another note DEAN is perceived as a liberal (whatever the hell that means) only because the detumescent DEMS have moved so far to the right. CLARK should be in the HAGUE with CLINTON explaining 77 straight days of bombing with depleted uranium missiles upon the only country who refused to join NATO, IMF and the ponzi schemes of USA transnationals- YUGOSLAVIA.

[ClarkUSA]

29. General Clark saved the lives of 1.5 million MUSLIM Albanians

Guess you would have preferred genocide, huh?

Ignore you, poe. Go eat a raven.

[ClarkUSA]

30. Wes Clark Democrat

Don't tread on me.

[DemonFighterLives]

27. Farmer/Labor

I don't really like the nasty word "liberal", but I probably am one compared to the Cultists. I lean more toward the Dean agenda which I think follows in the great tradition of the Kennedys and Wellstone.
Progressive and not greedy like the Neocons. The Dems are the good guys and let's never let that change. When the thugs are tarred and feathered, we will be like a new America shining on the world. If we have a world left.

[pinto]

28. Blue collar Democrat, and I ain't afraid of coalitions...n/t

[GreatAuntK]

31. Progressive Dem

I guess - disillusioned with the Party, though. I wanted Clark or Kucinich, or even Gore.

[Revolucionario83]

33. I come from a "Union Democrat" family

I myself am way to radical to be considered a Democrat. My beliefs are probably more in line with the Green Party. I'm just a leftest I guess....:shrug:

[B0S0X87]

34. I'm a libertarian democrat...

if such a thing exists.

Thirty years ago I probably would have been a Rockefeller/Heinz Republican, but with Bush's fiscal irresponsibilty and kowtowing to the Christian Right, I find my views are much closer to those of the democratic party.

[More Than A Feeling]

36. Bingo, right with you there n/t

[eridani]

35. Nice analysis of various Dem factions

http://www.nas.com/beddill/whichparty.shtml

There is the Democratic Party of the neocons - who "know" that corporations are and should be in charge -- and profit is the sole measure of success in business and their politics. There are corporate people in the national, state and local party, but I am not Corporate, and the Democratic Party of the neocons is not my party.

There is the Democratic Party of Principles and the Platform, who "know" that there are values which define what is important for the community, and that define the way things ought to be in order to bring a satisfactory life for everyone and a community and world in balance, for seven generations or more. But proposals founded on principles and values compete weakly against the power of immediate gratification, and struggle for the scarce resources which is almost always the case, so they are a small Party which rarely seems to have much impact - and attracts few members from those others who want it all, now, for themselves.

Check the link for other varieties.

[Pushed To The Left]

37. Socially liberal Democrat

I am most passionate about the social issues. I abolutely despise social conservatism. Prohibition, slavery, women and minorities not being allowed to vote, witch-burning.....all of these things are examples of social conservatism. Evil being justified by "tradition". Today we have attempted marriage amendments, drug prohibition, medical patients being arrested, vice laws, censorship...our country still has a long way to go before we are truly free.

I am of the apparently radical left-wing belief that consenting adults have a right to do what they want in the bedroom. The Supreme Court agreed. However, the right wing was outraged by that decision! How dare the Supreme Court take away their God-given right to throw people in prison for sex! This reaction showed me the true colors of the right wing, and I made a decision right there that those nutjobs needed to be defeated.

The more right-wing this country becomes, the more passionate I will become in doing what I can to help the left. Due to the election results, I became a monthly donor to the ACLU and PFAW. I also finally made it official and joined the Democratic Party. The only way I won't vote Democratic is if the Republican is more liberal than the Democrat. I will vote for the most liberal/progressive candidate who had a chance of winning.

[T Town Jake]

38. Scoop Jackson/Hubert Humphrey Democrat. (n/t)

[Greybnk48]

41. Yellow Dog Dem here too

ONly voted REpug for 2 people in 35 years.

[dvaravati]

42. ex-Democrat

Im Independent until I see some changes.

[newyawker99]

45. Hi dvaravati!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[knight_of_the_star]

44. Wes Clark Democrat

Wes Clark all the way!!!