Please give me one good reason why I should be a Democrat or vote Democrat?
I want tο know frοm Democrats whу іt іѕ really a ехсеllеnt thουght tο bе a Democrat. Please don’t ѕау bесаυѕе іt’s rіght οr іt’s better thаn being Republican. Please don’t repeat аnѕwеrѕ οthеr people hаνе written οr try tο bash mе bесаυѕе I аm slightly conservative аnd vote Republican. I want ехсеllеnt аnѕwеrѕ please. I want tο know whу people аrе Democrats.
Serious аnѕwеrѕ please. I want tο see frοm thеіr perspective. It’s more thаn lіkеlу nοt going tο change mу views. I јυѕt want tο gеt a better understanding. It’s nοt intending fοr υѕе οn bashing thеm еіthеr.
Whеrе аrе thе serious Democrat аnѕwеrѕ? Sο far οnlу Plaxico hаѕ tried tο give mе something.
Can’t reckon of a single reason!
because Oprah and all the cool kids vote that way
You don’t have to reckon, they do it for you.. its called being bone idle
If you like Socialism this is your party!
Compassion. Progressivism. Inclusive rather than exclusive world view. Recent history: Clinton ran the country and it’s economy far better than Bush.
NONE!!! VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!!
Well, if you want the government to pay for your food, health care, housing, and abortions while you sit on your a**, than vote democrat.
Best of all possibilities…you can see from this dissertation called…..
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and excellent because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised. All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plot because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance – now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe starts his work day. He has a excellent job with brilliant pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some bone idle liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn’t reckon he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
It’s noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Fantastic Depression. Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal chose that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.
Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers’ Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electricity until some huge-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification.
He is pleased to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are terrible and conservatives are excellent. He doesn’t mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don’t need those huge-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I’m a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."
You’ve lost all reason ability and common sense.
Stay a Republican, Democrats suck!
Umm, Ahhhh, Uhh….Wait a minute…no, that’s not it…Umm….nope not that either….Ahhh, Ummm…..O crap, I can’t reckon of ANY reason to vote democrat. Sorry.
I thought you would get some excellent responses to your question but then I got to thinking…most of them don’t really know why they are Democrat. It’s just the thing to do in college, because the parents were born in the days of free like and it just rubbed off, because of abortion or sexual preference? Honestly? Most of them just don’t get it.
Unless you isn’t poor or some yippie then no you cannot be a democrat.
What’s cool about this country is that you have to figure out your own reason instead of someone else doing it for you. Of course unless you’re a republican where thinking isn’t allowed
If you believe the rights and liberties granted by the Constitution are vital, if you believe the American ideal that every citizen should have equal rights and opportunities is a excellent thing, then you should vote Democrat.
if you don’t want to work and still get a check that might be a excellent reason for you to be a dem
I’m not a democrat, but I reckon you should be an independent and vote for the person, not the party.
You won’t have to pay taxes anymore
You shouldn’t let political party loyalty be the motive to vote for the candidates of that party. I have told my Senators not to expect my vote in 2010 because of the Wall Street bail out already.
I suggest everyone check their own Representatives vote records and campaign contributors then let them know what you reckon.
Did you know that voting records for Federal Politicians can be found at votesmart.org?
And from there political contributors information can be found through a link to opensecrets.org?
http://www.vote-smart.org
Example of just one Senator’s information at opensecrets:
Top 5 Contributors, 2003-2008
Merrill Lynch $371,745
Citigroup Inc $308,451
Morgan Stanley $262,777
Goldman Sachs $255,345
JPMorgan Chase & Co $226,307
Clearly their interests is themselves and not "Main Street" What could the House of Representatives and the Senate do immediately to ease the financial crisis?
That would should excellent faith? That would show that the problems of "Main Street" do matter? That the middle class would have to respect and even consider heroic?
How about reversing one or two of the pay raises they voted for themselves? Or pay 50% of their own medical coverage?
You do know that after voting for the bail out they finished their sessions KNOWING that when they returned they would delight in the AUTOMATIC pay rasies they had set up for themselves? Then they use the "evil other party finger pointing" to keep us from holding them personally accountable. The "We the people" have been divided by party lines to weaken us.
The basic premise of the Democrat platform is that we should have a disproportionately represented Federal interest in the government in order to promote social welfare programs.
Our government is supposed to have 3 areas of representation:
The People (as represented by the House)
The States (as represented by the Senate)
The Federal Union (as represented by the President)
The liberal view is that since people are too incompetent to take care of themselves it is the government’s job to do it for them and in order to do that we need to ignore the interests of both the People and the States and vest more power in the Federal Union so that we can mandate things across the board.
Because OTHER THAN
the lame ass lie that MOST of their BASE has believed in for yrs
(GOP will stop abortion)
(they’ve been saying that for 30 yrs and haven’t done it
YET many Republicans reckon Obama should have fixed their mess in his 17 days in office)
What does the G O P offer
certainly NOT fiscal responsibility
(doubling a deficit that took 200 yrs to build in 8 small yrs!!)
certainly not human compassion
(condoning torture and setting our excellent will & above the terrorists standing BACK 100 yrs)
certainly not patriotism
( after the President outs a CIA Agent—and don’t whine she wasn’t covert—-BECAUSE she WAS AT ONE TIME nad EVERY one of her CONTACTS were compromised and place in fantastic danger)
What?
Well it’s simple to see that you questioned the question of democrats and lots of repubs answered….so I guess your smarter if you vote democratic.
In response to sean f…..
It’s not that people aren’t smart enough to want these actions that’s why they voted the Representatives to make these laws! Since obviously businesses do not police themselves this recent peanut scandal they were aware for 4 years… enron and vegetable contamination, water scandals and many other business problems. That’s why these laws are on the books…self policing does not work.