Why I Am A Democrat
Like it or not, American government is a two-party system and I don’t see it changing anytime soon. Not being a member of one of these parties would mean that I would have no part in the selection of candidates, platforms or agendas and could only vote for candidates selected by other people.
I am a pacifist and a socialist. I support all programs and policies that promote the needs of the powerless in our society. I do not agree with the Democrat Party all of the time, but I am always allowed a voice. I am always listened to and my ideas are considered and not rejected before I’ve had a chance to make my case. My influence on the Democrat Party, while not great, helps push a more progressive agenda.
I am a pragmatist. I accept incremental changes as steps in the right direction as I continue to push for a more progressive agenda.
Do you even know what a Progressive is? Maybe you should research it a little…a Progressive is a Marxist. You support the Democratic Party? The Party of Nathan Bedford Forrest…who started the Ku Klux Klan? The Democratic Party that stood in the doorways of the colleges in this country and refused to let Black people enter? You support the Democratic Party that tapped the phone lines of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and labeled him a Communist and a womanizer? Do you realize it was the first elected Republican President that ended Slavery? Did you know it was the Republican President Ike Eisenhower who ordered the military to remove those Democratic Governors from the doorways of the colleges allowing Blacks to go to school? Did you know it was Republican Richard Nixon that signed the first affirmative action into law? Nope…I do not think you know. If it had been left up to the Democratic Party…slavery would still be going on today…as the Democrats did not want to lose the cheap labor on their Democratic owned Plantations. Good luck with your Socialist Agenda…as it sounds like you fit right in to the Democratic Party. At least you’re honest about it.
You fail on so many levels. What you claim is so very different than actual history. I know. History was my favorite subject. Thank you for adding disinformation to my blog.
Nice blog! I too am a pragmatist. My fear is that money and the corporations that wield it (the new robber barons) have stifled the voice of the citizenry? Just what I fear. đŸ˜‰
I’m a pragmatist too. Hate abortion,
hate slavery,
hate big government,
hate earmarks,
hate high taxes,
hate presidents that give trillions of dollars away to banks and corporations that pay CEO salaries 1000 time earnings of the average laborer’s wages,
hate any party that “borrows” money from the Social Security Trust Fund instead of cutting the size of our government,
hate any party that sent or continues to send American soldiers to Afganistan instead of saving billions a month to fight a war that has no positive outcome no matter how long it’s fought or how many more billions are given to that country.
Oh my damn….I’m a man without a party!
Funny thing is, I am registred in the party I hate more just to make sure I do my part in the primaries to get the lunitic on the ballot that will lose any House, Senate or Presidential election.
Sounds like we’ve got a lot in common. I’m not too happy with many Democrats right now. Especially many of the so-called Blue Dogs. But I’ve seen a few diamonds in the rough. It’s a shame that Alan Grayson isn’t in office anymore. I still would like to see him and Al Franken run together in a bid for the White House one day. I tend to be a bit more progressive than most Democrats. As you can see from some of the folks that have commented here, that makes me Hitler. Ha ha ha!
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Bush on the ground in New orleans….follow the link. Doh!
Biloxi, MS. But the way you twist things, it doesn’t surprise me.