Democrats Don't Stand for Anything!

[tecelote]

In response to people saying that Democrats don’t stand for anything, I decided to write this. I thought that I’d post it here to see if I could get some feedback before I send it out to a few people I’d like to convince that we do stand for America. All of America.

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Democrats & Republicans: A Fundamental Difference


Democrats are different from Republicans.

Democrats believe that Americans deserve the right of personal choice and that the government's job is to offer options. The government works for the people not the other way around.

Republicans on the other hand, believe that Americans should follow the right path and it is their job to define and enforce that path. There is no need for individual choice since all Americans are expected to toe the line. The people support their government.

This is why I have a problem with today's Republicans. I'm not sure what happened to their beliefs in a small government that stays out of its citizen's lives and is managed as fiscally responsible as it expects its citizens to be. These Republicans have been replaced by religiously biased war profiteers.

Republicans today believe that there is one path and if you are not following it you are simply off course.

If you are off course, then you fit in to two categories of lost souls.

The first category is full of good people that simply need guidance to get back on track. Republicans are happy to help. In fact, it's their duty. They make a pretty good profit at it too.

The second category of lost souls are consumed by evil. These people are too independent to be lead by anyone and the best way to deal with them is to enact laws that will catch and contain these people. Evidence of this can be realized in the fact that the United States, The Land of the Free, holds more prisoners than any country in the world including China. Security and Prisons are big business in America too.

That's what scares me the most today. It seems to me that everything from the Iraq War to Social Security is being driven by a need for wealthy Republicans to profit from our government.

Why do we allow these war profiteers make U.S. policy?

The answer is even scarier. With a national debt so high that our children's children will still be paying it off, it is the poor that support the Republicans. The very people being abused the most. Because… they think it is the moral and ethical choice. As the wealthy get wealthier, the poor get poorer because they support it.

Democrats need to figure out why that is. How do people come off as being moral and ethical during a rape. These people are incredibly successful with their propaganda. Democrats need to find out how to do this with an “honest” angle to it.

Republicans will continue to shove the “right” path down your throat while profiting from the destruction of so many things that we hold dear including the lives of our sons and daughters serving in Iraq… unless you do something.

Vote Democrat. Maybe the new battle cry should be “Democrats - We trust you to choose” or “Vote for the World - Vote for Yourself - Vote Democrat”. The goal should be to convince Americans citizens that voting Democrat is voting for an America that cares about it's citizens and neighbors.

Democrats are different than Republicans because we care about all Americans. We trust Americans to make their own decisions and Democrats believe that the government works for it's citizens.

It's simply a better world.

[Warpy]

1. If Democrats care about all people

why do their programs only appeal to yuppies?

This is not flamebait, it's a valid question, and one that is at the heart of the power struggle going on in the party right now.

The way to keep the Democrats out of power is to do exactly what they've been doing for the last three decades.

I'm hoping that some day your statement will be true. Right now, it isn't. The Democrats are just as elitist as their pubbie counterparts, albeit not as blatantly corrupt.

"Vote Democratic, we're not quite as crooked" isn't much of a slogan.

[tecelote]

3. The system is only as good as the people that run it.

Here, I am discussing the basic values. But, you are right. If we can not get trustworthy people in to power, even a good system will have bad effects.

[acmejack]

5. Because the GOP has done a better job of encapsulating their core values

Everyone can tell you what the GOP stands for (allegedly)-small government, low taxes and a strong military. The average Dem has a big problem distilling their core beliefs into sound bite sized pieces, if you ask some one to tell you what the democratic party stands for in 25 words or less, odds are they can't.

The republicons have mastered the media game, aided and abetted by their on-call phalanx of experts from their pet think tanks. They didn't do this overnight, it took them 40 years. We are playing catch up.

That said, I agree that just a D behind one's name does not automatically entitle them to our votes, some synergism in the end goals must exist. And they must be worthy of our support and be made to earn our votes.

[Toots]

6. Could you be more specific as to the Democratic programs that appeal to

only Yuppies? Maybe Child Labor Laws, or Social Security, or OSHA, or Rebuilding America's infrastructure, or Public Health Care, or Head Start, or Affirmative Action, or Cafe Standards, or Wealth gap between rich and poor, or Global Warming, etc. etc. All Yuppie causes to be sure..

[ElectroPrincess]

2. It will only be a better world if our Democratic leaders ...

Most especially John F. Kerry remembered the LESSON from Vietnam.

Powell was wrong about the "Pottery Barn" metaphor.

Flatly wrong because that piece of china (Iraq) shattered into thousands of pieces.

Now Iraq, IMO, is a FOREIGN country. We made Humpty Dumpty (Iraq) fall off of that wall.

Iraqi's instability now is as simple as a nursery tale:

All of KING George's horses (mercenaries) all of KING George's men (USA troops) can NOT put Humpty Dumpy back together again.

We should pull out *all* the troops BUT financially support the formation of a REPRESENTATIVE government in Iraq.

However, that means that the * Dynasty will not get all the spoils, therefore, they will continue to spew propaganda to the effect that the IRAQI people are too stupid and/or savage to sort it out for themselves. That's pure Empire. That's propaganda.

We either leave, somewhat cleanly, NOW! Or we leave in disgrace as we were KICKED OUT in Vietnam.

When will we ever learn that empires fail? No, we can't kill THEM ALL. As long as one Iraqi can draw breath he/she will fight to their death to defend THEIR country. It's called NATIONALISM. They will "hit hard" then meld back into the population.

Bottom Line: We can NOT win - OR - make life better for the innocent Iraqis as long as we keep a troop presence in THEIR country.

[acmejack]

4. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. spoke to this yesterday

at the Democracyfest. He delivered a terrific crowd rousing speech and pointed out what we believe in, summed up by we "believe in a more perfect union" which does a nice job of wrapping up single payer health care as a fundamental right, choice, the full realization of every individual's potential, education, voting rights, secure retirement and human empowerment into a neat little package. I hope to obtain the transcript of the speech soon and will post it when it becomes available.