Where Dem’s At?
http://www.democrats.org/a/party/stand.html
The Democratic Party is committed to keeping our nation safe and expanding opportunity for every American. That commitment is reflected in an agenda that emphasizes the security of our nation, strong economic growth, affordable health care for all Americans, retirement security, honest government, and civil rights.
I know when I was criticism Republicans I had a point by point thing going with each of their “beliefs” but the democrats do not have such a convenient bashing tool. For one, I have a problem with the Democratic party because it is a party. George Washington said in his farewell address, “the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.” Washington does explain his fear of the party system and why it is that he fears it. Sadly, most of the bad stuff that Washington talked about in his farewell address, came true. Any way, on to Democrat bashing.
Democrats, like any other form of groups, have a core belief system. Most people who say they are part of a group will remain ignorant of the group’s core beliefs and do things against the core beliefs.
Democrats say they stand for “Honest Government” but so few of the “leaders” practice honest government. I hear all the time that bashing, lying and deceiving Americans so that one politician can get the office over another is just “Politics,” like I am supposed take that as meaning its ok because there are some idiotic unspoken rules or that its ok because almost all politicians do it. I say that is completely stupid. We should require some one in public office to disclose everything that has to do with running their office so that we know what the hell they are doing. Sometimes some information is sensitive and should not be disclosed the public, but that should be a rare instance for every public official not working in the pentagon, CIA, FBI… etc.
Why do democrats say they are for civic rights while trying to impose “political correctness” and infringing on the rights that should be protected under the first amendment. Why do they pass laws to regulate language in the media? “Curse” words are a part of our language and some one telling some one else to not say some words is abridging their freedom of speech. This is a heated argument that I won’t get into, but if you are more offended by a word than the sentence the word is in, then you really need to grow up. A word is just a series of sounds that form a unified meaning that represents something. So if its ok to say “poop,” then any other word that means the same thing should also be allowed. If it is ok to say “female dog” then anything else that means that should be ok to say. Both parties participate in abridging freedoms, but most Democrats are supposed to be liberals and liberal is supposed to stand for liberty.
With the power of the House finally going to the Democrats, I would have expected them to do more to fix the problems caused by a party going out of control (I also expected them to create new problems). But since they have gained the power, they have done pretty much nothing, while saying they will change a lot. I know it takes time to make some changes, but it has been over a year now and nothing has changed. We still have three major powers in our government to maintain checks and balances. The House is one of them, but as far as I have seen they have checked, but won’t balance.
Because of my dislike in the problems and corruption caused by the party system, I will not join any party and will remain a free thinking American. George Washington wanted Americans to be free thinking and he seems to be a suitable example of an American.