This insanity is what you support, by supporting liberals.
(And, this insanity is what conservatives support, by supporting conservatives who play along with this garbage as if it were in any way legitimate.)
Not all "liberals" support this stuff.
Many people ask me why I'm a Democrat. And that is a fair question.
For those who might have ever wondered, I'll share why I'm a Democrat.
I identify as a Democrat because I don't agree with the anarcho-capitalism of the Republican Party. I also support universal healthcare through single payer Medicare for all. I'm pro-labor. I oppose corporate personhood. I support banking regulations that protect the investor. I believe in a foreign policy that focuses upon international diplomacy & alliances. I believe in social justice for the poor & vulnerable through limited welfare, job training, and strengthening Social Security to care for the elderly who have worked hard and paid their dues to society. I believe in closing tax loopholes that the wealthy and corporations exploit to avoid paying taxes thereby placing the majority of the tax burden on the working class. I believe in investing in clean energy initiatives and the dangers of climate change. I support environmental protection and wildlife conservation. I oppose measures that are veiled attempts at voter suppression and support universal voter registration and 20 day in-person early voting periods. I believe that the focus of tax cuts should be small businesses and the middle class. I believe that a focus on clean energy and rebuilding America's failing infrastructure is a vast opportunity to create millions of new jobs and open new career fields. I believe in raising the minimum wage. I believe in the Equal Rights Amendment and equal pay for women. While I don't condone every lifestyle or relationship, I believe that it isn't the government's role to regulate who we can or cannot marry or to regulate our private lives. I believe in the separation of church and state. I support ending the failed drug war, ending mandatory sentencing, and closing "for-profit" prisons. I believe that tuition should be free for public schools and state colleges. Based on history, I believe that banks, corporations, and various industries tend to oppose regulation for the same reason that organized crime opposes having more cops on the street. I do not believe that taxation is theft, I believe that paying one's taxes is both a moral and social obligation.
I believe that America can be strong and that the sky is the limit. I believe in thinking big. Thinking small didn't put a man on the moon. Thinking small didn't forge the greatest generation. Thinking small didn't dig us out of the Great Depression. Thinking small didn't defeat the Axis Powers. Thinking small didn't put America in a place where she was number one in innovation, invention, science, liberty, education, and exploration. Thinking small didn't remove the smog that hung over so many of America's cities. Thinking small didn't establish what were once the most beautiful national parks and wildlife reservations in the world. Thinking small didn't protect so many species, such as the Bald Eagle, from extinction. Thinking small didn't starve the Communist block into collapse. Thinking small didn't produce the military might and moral reserve that established the United States as being the leader of the free world.
Values such as civility, honor, duty, courage, equality, patriotism, solidarity, and loyalty were forged in the hearts of blue collar America and those values once united us. The small thinking of shoe-string government, unchecked corporate power, discrimination, racism, hatred, religious manipulation, and the attitude that is focused only on making a buck and "what's in it for me", are nothing but a social blood poison that is the bedrock of what is being mistaken as "rugged individualism" that has produced a divided, selfish, arrogant, ignorant, and angry nation.
I believe a lowly hardworking farmer should have more rights, entitlements, and protections than a bank or a corporation. I believe that the American tax payer should see their tax dollars returning to them in valuable services that help struggling and working class families... not massive giveaways to corporate interests that are paid for out of the public trust. I believe that "trickle-down economics" will only work if someone is bold enough to force the powerful, who are hoarding it all at the top, to open the spigot.
I look at the landscape and I see on the horizon lack of healthcare, people dying from treatable conditions, underfunded and collapsing public schools, substandard charter schools, the poor abandoned in shanty towns, single moms working two or three jobs just to survive, the elderly having to choose between eating and the medications they need, antiquated and crumbling civil infrastructure, outdated technology and energy production. I see substandard wages that don't meet the cost of living which forces mothers and fathers to work two jobs and sometimes more, thereby contributing to the breakdown of the family bond. I see pollution, poisoned ecosystems, unchecked corporate power, corporations owning politicians, oligarchy, corporations crushing small businesses and family shops. I see environmental crisis that largely effects the poor and those who couldn't afford to relocate. I see a poverty stricken, diseased, crime ridden, dying, society with for-profit prisons bursting at the seems, and people dying in the shadows of hospitals... while corporations record profits one year after another, and every billionaire owns a bill named after them in Congress. I see corporate profiteers pushing us into unnecessary wars... our young men and women dying... while there is nothing left in our society to even fight for. Meanwhile, a fat, toothless, entertainment driven, ignorant, home front cheers from the bleachers, wearing cheap shirts made in China that are covered with corporate logos, and chanting with big foam fingers and giant cowboy hats, "We're nummer 1! We're nummer 1! We're nummer 1!"
But we're not too far gone yet. I believe that if we awaken from the spell of corporate glitz and voodoo, we'll discover how strong we truly are together. I believe we can change course and prevent the dystopic future that unchecked greed, power, and exploitation will produce. We simply have to realize the power than can be found in just three words:
We, the people...
I remember when I was younger, I think it was 1st grade. We'd stand and say The Pledge of Allegiance. And I remember the pride that would well up in me with every word.
"I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
That final statement, "with liberty and justice for all." To me, that embodies what we are supposed to aspire to. But even more moving to me was the song we'd sing after giving the pledge. We'd take our hands off our hearts and sing a song that I think was the first song I ever knew the words to... I can still hear in my head how it sounded in that classroom as we began singing...
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
I love my country. I believe that nothing is impossible if we stand together. That is why I'm a Democrat.
Many people ask me why I'm a Democrat. And that is a fair question.
For those who might have ever wondered, I'll share why I'm a Democrat.
I identify as a Democrat because I don't agree with the anarcho-capitalism of the Republican Party. I also support universal healthcare through single payer Medicare for all. I'm pro-labor. I oppose corporate personhood. I support banking regulations that protect the investor. I believe in a foreign policy that focuses upon international diplomacy & alliances. I believe in social justice for the poor & vulnerable through limited welfare, job training, and strengthening Social Security to care for the elderly who have worked hard and paid their dues to society. I believe in closing tax loopholes that the wealthy and corporations exploit to avoid paying taxes thereby placing the majority of the tax burden on the working class. I believe in investing in clean energy initiatives and the dangers of climate change. I support environmental protection and wildlife conservation. I oppose measures that are veiled attempts at voter suppression and support universal voter registration and 20 day in-person early voting periods. I believe that the focus of tax cuts should be small businesses and the middle class. I believe that a focus on clean energy and rebuilding America's failing infrastructure is a vast opportunity to create millions of new jobs and open new career fields. I believe in raising the minimum wage. I believe in the Equal Rights Amendment and equal pay for women. While I don't condone every lifestyle or relationship, I believe that it isn't the government's role to regulate who we can or cannot marry or to regulate our private lives. I believe in the separation of church and state. I support ending the failed drug war, ending mandatory sentencing, and closing "for-profit" prisons. I believe that tuition should be free for public schools and state colleges. Based on history, I believe that banks, corporations, and various industries tend to oppose regulation for the same reason that organized crime opposes having more cops on the street. I do not believe that taxation is theft, I believe that paying one's taxes is both a moral and social obligation.
I believe that America can be strong and that the sky is the limit. I believe in thinking big. Thinking small didn't put a man on the moon. Thinking small didn't forge the greatest generation. Thinking small didn't dig us out of the Great Depression. Thinking small didn't defeat the Axis Powers. Thinking small didn't put America in a place where she was number one in innovation, invention, science, liberty, education, and exploration. Thinking small didn't remove the smog that hung over so many of America's cities. Thinking small didn't establish what were once the most beautiful national parks and wildlife reservations in the world. Thinking small didn't protect so many species, such as the Bald Eagle, from extinction. Thinking small didn't starve the Communist block into collapse. Thinking small didn't produce the military might and moral reserve that established the United States as being the leader of the free world.
Values such as civility, honor, duty, courage, equality, patriotism, solidarity, and loyalty were forged in the hearts of blue collar America and those values once united us. The small thinking of shoe-string government, unchecked corporate power, discrimination, racism, hatred, religious manipulation, and the attitude that is focused only on making a buck and "what's in it for me", are nothing but a social blood poison that is the bedrock of what is being mistaken as "rugged individualism" that has produced a divided, selfish, arrogant, ignorant, and angry nation.
I believe a lowly hardworking farmer should have more rights, entitlements, and protections than a bank or a corporation. I believe that the American tax payer should see their tax dollars returning to them in valuable services that help struggling and working class families... not massive giveaways to corporate interests that are paid for out of the public trust. I believe that "trickle-down economics" will only work if someone is bold enough to force the powerful, who are hoarding it all at the top, to open the spigot.
I look at the landscape and I see on the horizon lack of healthcare, people dying from treatable conditions, underfunded and collapsing public schools, substandard charter schools, the poor abandoned in shanty towns, single moms working two or three jobs just to survive, the elderly having to choose between eating and the medications they need, antiquated and crumbling civil infrastructure, outdated technology and energy production. I see substandard wages that don't meet the cost of living which forces mothers and fathers to work two jobs and sometimes more, thereby contributing to the breakdown of the family bond. I see pollution, poisoned ecosystems, unchecked corporate power, corporations owning politicians, oligarchy, corporations crushing small businesses and family shops. I see environmental crisis that largely effects the poor and those who couldn't afford to relocate. I see a poverty stricken, diseased, crime ridden, dying, society with for-profit prisons bursting at the seems, and people dying in the shadows of hospitals... while corporations record profits one year after another, and every billionaire owns a bill named after them in Congress. I see corporate profiteers pushing us into unnecessary wars... our young men and women dying... while there is nothing left in our society to even fight for. Meanwhile, a fat, toothless, entertainment driven, ignorant, home front cheers from the bleachers, wearing cheap shirts made in China that are covered with corporate logos, and chanting with big foam fingers and giant cowboy hats, "We're nummer 1! We're nummer 1! We're nummer 1!"
But we're not too far gone yet. I believe that if we awaken from the spell of corporate glitz and voodoo, we'll discover how strong we truly are together. I believe we can change course and prevent the dystopic future that unchecked greed, power, and exploitation will produce. We simply have to realize the power than can be found in just three words:
We, the people...
I remember when I was younger, I think it was 1st grade. We'd stand and say The Pledge of Allegiance. And I remember the pride that would well up in me with every word.
"I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
That final statement, "with liberty and justice for all." To me, that embodies what we are supposed to aspire to. But even more moving to me was the song we'd sing after giving the pledge. We'd take our hands off our hearts and sing a song that I think was the first song I ever knew the words to... I can still hear in my head how it sounded in that classroom as we began singing...
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
I love my country. I believe that nothing is impossible if we stand together. That is why I'm a Democrat.
That was very well written. about 80% of it I could use as why I am a republican. LOL>
__________________ If I do something stupid blame the Lortab!
Many people ask me why I'm a Democrat. And that is a fair question.
For those who might have ever wondered, I'll share why I'm a Democrat.
I identify as a Democrat because I don't agree with the anarcho-capitalism of the Republican Party. I also support universal healthcare through single payer Medicare for all. I'm pro-labor. I oppose corporate personhood. I support banking regulations that protect the investor. I believe in a foreign policy that focuses upon international diplomacy & alliances. I believe in social justice for the poor & vulnerable through limited welfare, job training, and strengthening Social Security to care for the elderly who have worked hard and paid their dues to society. I believe in closing tax loopholes that the wealthy and corporations exploit to avoid paying taxes thereby placing the majority of the tax burden on the working class. I believe in investing in clean energy initiatives and the dangers of climate change. I support environmental protection and wildlife conservation. I oppose measures that are veiled attempts at voter suppression and support universal voter registration and 20 day in-person early voting periods. I believe that the focus of tax cuts should be small businesses and the middle class. I believe that a focus on clean energy and rebuilding America's failing infrastructure is a vast opportunity to create millions of new jobs and open new career fields. I believe in raising the minimum wage. I believe in the Equal Rights Amendment and equal pay for women. While I don't condone every lifestyle or relationship, I believe that it isn't the government's role to regulate who we can or cannot marry or to regulate our private lives. I believe in the separation of church and state. I support ending the failed drug war, ending mandatory sentencing, and closing "for-profit" prisons. I believe that tuition should be free for public schools and state colleges. Based on history, I believe that banks, corporations, and various industries tend to oppose regulation for the same reason that organized crime opposes having more cops on the street. I do not believe that taxation is theft, I believe that paying one's taxes is both a moral and social obligation.
I believe that America can be strong and that the sky is the limit. I believe in thinking big. Thinking small didn't put a man on the moon. Thinking small didn't forge the greatest generation. Thinking small didn't dig us out of the Great Depression. Thinking small didn't defeat the Axis Powers. Thinking small didn't put America in a place where she was number one in innovation, invention, science, liberty, education, and exploration. Thinking small didn't remove the smog that hung over so many of America's cities. Thinking small didn't establish what were once the most beautiful national parks and wildlife reservations in the world. Thinking small didn't protect so many species, such as the Bald Eagle, from extinction. Thinking small didn't starve the Communist block into collapse. Thinking small didn't produce the military might and moral reserve that established the United States as being the leader of the free world.
Values such as civility, honor, duty, courage, equality, patriotism, solidarity, and loyalty were forged in the hearts of blue collar America and those values once united us. The small thinking of shoe-string government, unchecked corporate power, discrimination, racism, hatred, religious manipulation, and the attitude that is focused only on making a buck and "what's in it for me", are nothing but a social blood poison that is the bedrock of what is being mistaken as "rugged individualism" that has produced a divided, selfish, arrogant, ignorant, and angry nation.
I believe a lowly hardworking farmer should have more rights, entitlements, and protections than a bank or a corporation. I believe that the American tax payer should see their tax dollars returning to them in valuable services that help struggling and working class families... not massive giveaways to corporate interests that are paid for out of the public trust. I believe that "trickle-down economics" will only work if someone is bold enough to force the powerful, who are hoarding it all at the top, to open the spigot.
I look at the landscape and I see on the horizon lack of healthcare, people dying from treatable conditions, underfunded and collapsing public schools, substandard charter schools, the poor abandoned in shanty towns, single moms working two or three jobs just to survive, the elderly having to choose between eating and the medications they need, antiquated and crumbling civil infrastructure, outdated technology and energy production. I see substandard wages that don't meet the cost of living which forces mothers and fathers to work two jobs and sometimes more, thereby contributing to the breakdown of the family bond. I see pollution, poisoned ecosystems, unchecked corporate power, corporations owning politicians, oligarchy, corporations crushing small businesses and family shops. I see environmental crisis that largely effects the poor and those who couldn't afford to relocate. I see a poverty stricken, diseased, crime ridden, dying, society with for-profit prisons bursting at the seems, and people dying in the shadows of hospitals... while corporations record profits one year after another, and every billionaire owns a bill named after them in Congress. I see corporate profiteers pushing us into unnecessary wars... our young men and women dying... while there is nothing left in our society to even fight for. Meanwhile, a fat, toothless, entertainment driven, ignorant, home front cheers from the bleachers, wearing cheap shirts made in China that are covered with corporate logos, and chanting with big foam fingers and giant cowboy hats, "We're nummer 1! We're nummer 1! We're nummer 1!"
But we're not too far gone yet. I believe that if we awaken from the spell of corporate glitz and voodoo, we'll discover how strong we truly are together. I believe we can change course and prevent the dystopic future that unchecked greed, power, and exploitation will produce. We simply have to realize the power than can be found in just three words:
We, the people...
I remember when I was younger, I think it was 1st grade. We'd stand and say The Pledge of Allegiance. And I remember the pride that would well up in me with every word.
"I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
That final statement, "with liberty and justice for all." To me, that embodies what we are supposed to aspire to. But even more moving to me was the song we'd sing after giving the pledge. We'd take our hands off our hearts and sing a song that I think was the first song I ever knew the words to... I can still hear in my head how it sounded in that classroom as we began singing...
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
I love my country. I believe that nothing is impossible if we stand together. That is why I'm a Democrat.
Horsepuckey.
You support the people who officially booed God at their convention. You support the party that openly endorses the murder of the innocent unborn. You support the party that openly supports just about every sexual perversion known to man. You support the party that openly supports bringing in as many Islamic rapefugees as possible, moar! faster! You support the party that the CPUSA supports. You support the party that has consistently sought to get and keep everyone on Uncle Sam's Welfare Plantation. You support with your vote, voice, and wallet the people who create and finance every antichristian movement and agenda in this country. You support the people who created and who manage the anti white, anti America, and anti freedom, and anti Christian brainwashing that goes on in our nation's universities, churning out brain dead idiot zombie bigots who LITERALLY claim white males should just commit suicide because their very existence is "racist and sexist". And you claim to be a Christian, while in reality you're just a communist humanist change agent.
In short, you are everything that's wrong with this country.
You support the people who officially booed God at their convention. You support the party that openly endorses the murder of the innocent unborn. You support the party that openly supports just about every sexual perversion known to man. You support the party that openly supports bringing in as many Islamic rapefugees as possible, moar! faster! You support the party that the CPUSA supports. You support the party that has consistently sought to get and keep everyone on Uncle Sam's Welfare Plantation. You support with your vote, voice, and wallet the people who create and finance every antichristian movement and agenda in this country. You support the people who created and who manage the anti white, anti America, and anti freedom, and anti Christian brainwashing that goes on in our nation's universities, churning out brain dead idiot zombie bigots who LITERALLY claim white males should just commit suicide because their very existence is "racist and sexist". And you claim to be a Christian, while in reality you're just a communist humanist change agent.
In short, you are everything that's wrong with this country.
Notice. You never even asked me what I believe about those issues. You assume.
I don't have time right now to address every issue you've brought up. I will say this, Christians within the Democratic Party don't always agree with every position the party has taken. And we find the manner in which the Republican Party uses God and religion as part of their political strategy to gain voters to be deplorable. They talk up religion to get the religious vote, then they call Christians cooks and crazy behind closed doors after the elections Christians helped them win.
I don't have time right now to address every issue you've brought up.
What a laugh, but if Deuteronomy 22:5 was brought up you would of been posting round the clock.
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
That final statement, "with liberty and justice for all." To me, that embodies what we are supposed to aspire to. But even more moving to me was the song we'd sing after giving the pledge. We'd take our hands off our hearts and sing a song that I think was the first song I ever knew the words to... I can still hear in my head how it sounded in that classroom as we began singing...
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
I love my country. I believe that nothing is impossible if we stand together. That is why I'm a Democrat.
I love Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God. Our country isn't of this world.
The kingdoms and governments pass away, but Christ remains. Sorry, but Jesus wasn't a patriot, or standing up and singing a devotional to a country, He did the opposite. He rebuked a country and its filthy corrupt leadership. He promised them of their impending doom. You inleague yourself with the likes of Obama, Hillary, and Bill Clinton which are all reprobates. What blasphemy you speak and how dare you use "if we stand together" under the banner of some political party we can do anything? Nothing is impossible through Christ. Not some reprobate political party that only caters to the 1%. While sadly making the minions believe they have a say in how the plantation is run.
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
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