I've voted for a few democrats here in Alabama. I'd vote for some of them again.
After witnessing the last couple of years, my question is serious. What would make you continue to be part of this party?
If you don't have anything nice to say or can't say what you feel in a reasonable manner... consider not replying.
K
I am an independent that votes democratic, for the most part. They are the only party that recognizes abortion rights for women as a fundamental HUMAN right. Thus, the republican position I find inhuman and reeking of misogynist dogma.
Secondly, the Democrats are the party that truly supports religious freedom. By opposing theocrats on the right, they help maintain my right NOT to believe in any gods and to keep our public discourse secular, not atheist, just secular.
Thirdly, the Republican party is lost in an economic fantasy that hurts us all. The mythical free market has excused some really bad decisions. Incredibly, the republicans seem unwilling to admit that if tax cuts for the rich are accompanied by massive debt, as they are now, you have paid the rich, once again, at the expense of the poor. Wealth, after all, knows no borders but poverty is local as ****. The Republican fiscal policy is madness. There is no investment in the nation, just gifts to the rich.
Finally, there is war. Juxtaposed against conservative moralizing is their very real military obsession. There has not been a republican president in the last fifty years who has not been a shameless war whore and written blank checks to the military industrial complex.
Conservatives and many democrats thrive on military positive platitudes. I remember, though, when George W spoke of the Iraq war as "the first war of the 21st century". When I heard that I felt a sense of hopelessness that peace is ever going to happen. That cavalier acceptance of war, as an immutable part of human life, made me question the goodness and intelligence of all men, especially him. I question the Republican party for their own lack of moderation to their blood lust. Bomb Bomb Iran was not a liberal tune.
For these and other reasons I support the Democratic party. When it comes right down to it, despite their shrill whining and their own utopian dogma, the democrats are the only moral choice for me. Their INTENTION is almost always superior. To allow my votes to reward religious fanatics and shameless sycophants to wealth would not be, in any small way, repaid by the confidence that comes with being one of the establishment.
Some call it a choice between two evils but, when the difference is that dramatic, the smaller evil, Democratic party, pales by comparison.