Why are Democrats appear to be so unamerican on everything this country stands for.?
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Democrats appear unAmerican because that is an APPEARANCE portrayed through Conservative manipulation of media and message. Conservatives are extremely disciplined and they know what they want, they know how they want to go about getting it, and they thoroughly believe what they are doing is worth whatever it takes for them to achieve it. Democrats facilitate this message because we don't know what we want and even if we did we have no idea of how to get there, all we know is we think Conservatives are mean to us and we don't understand why? All the while, Conservatives have gotten the appearance of victimhood for themselves into a science. Just read anything Newt Gingrich wrote or said about the Conservative Revolution. If you stand in the way, you'll have tire tracks down your back.
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I'll first say that I don't designate myself as a Democrat or Republican, although I do tend to take the side of the Democrats more often.\n\nThe reason, though, that Democrats can't win the White House is that they don't have a solid stance on ANYTHING.  They simply take what the conservatives say (which is always swayed to the right) and try to find a middle ground or happy medium...rather than stating firmly what they believe in.  Democrats are so scared to lose that small part of the conservative vote that they fail to uphold solid beliefs on any topic.\n\nIf I were a Democrat running in the next election, there are two major things I would focus on:\n\n1) The failures of the Republican administration over the past 8 years.\n2) The environment and global warming.\n\nThese are two things that SHOULD be the goals of the liberals.....both correcting the mistakes of the conservatives (war, hurricane relief, taxes, health care) and concentrating on easing global warming by moving to alternative fuels, thus lowering gas costs, etc.  In addition, regarding issues brought forth in the last election like abortion, stem cell research, and gay rights.....TAKE A STAND!!!!  The "flip-flopper" term was thrown around because there's no solid opinion of the party as a whole.  It's always a politician's answer that never resolves the initial question.\n\nSo that's all.  Hope that made sense.  And by the way...making up your mind before hearing the issue makes you a complete moron.  Just because you're the "member of a party" does NOT mean you have to agree with everything the party says.  Partisan politics are for the mindless.
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We are the land of the free. The USA is not an evil place. It's just we have the wrong people running this country. There priorities are messed up. If we can all come together and take care of our own problems first then worry about someone else's problems, we wouldn't be considered evil.
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You are right, they see Americans and the European man on the street couldn't tell you the difference between Bush's and Pelosi's policies.  They have no clue what a Dem or a Rep is.\n\nThe truth is there are a lot of social programs in Europe and those programs are expensive.  Because of this a lot of their economies have stagnated while ours has grown.  This has led to us being more successful and they are jealous.  In fact they are right now trying to go through the UN to force us to change our subsidy standard because they cannot compete with us agriculturally and they want to weaken our farmers, this movement started way back during Clinton and they are still pushing for it.\n\nThey really don't hate us as much as they are jealous.  They also fall into the thought process that we must want to be like them and we must change.  Truth is we have been at odds with Europe for a long time, they only wanted us around for so long just to make sure they didn't end up speaking Russian.
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Democrats from the beginning have had problems with terrorism. For one thing they haven't produce a plan on terrorism. By the way there have been some rank and file Dems which have broken away from their party and have gone Republican. Why? the ranting far left and thier criticism of the President. The keep talking the talk but they haven't produce results. U see Democrats care about is power and high taxes.
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history shows that the usa votes christian. they wouldnt vote for the buddhist or muslim because of prejudice based on propaganda. i vote libertarian in hopes that they reach a million votes someday so they can be in the debates. the dems & repubs have run this country since day 1 & have done more harm than good. the things the rest of the world has always admired about us are innovations from people, the same innovations the government has always tried to stand in the way of or tax when successful. government doesnt give us our freedom, the fact we're alive does. the constitution & bill of rights are restrictions on gov power.
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I think its a toss-up really.  They always endorse democrats.  We are always astonished by the lengths they will go to to do this.  Perhaps the passage of time makes us a little numb to the tactics of two years ago, or four or six or eight for that matter.  But I do not see any more anxiety this time around.
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everything you have said is true, fair enough i'm guessing by the smug superiority of your question that your possibly european of some description... \nits hardly fair to call america backwards... they are a bit mad, bigotted and obsessed with thier own self importance though and theres the obvious stupidity that will always be associated with the fact that they elected not one... two bush's
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Most Democrats are liberals, they want open borders and they want also to flood our country with cheap labor and more votes, because most Mexicans vote Democrat. And Democratic liberals are working for a country like he European Nations all one country. and it's not working over their. They don't want a sovereign Nation.
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I have a tendency to think right now that the democrats are just flexing their new found muscles.The New York Times this morning was all talk about how the democrats were only in a hurry about getting the Iraqi war situation in hand and establishing a withdrawal date.\nPolitics are all about compromise,both party's do it all the time.Neither will get all of what they want,its a trade off.There were a lot of moderate Democrats that were elected,not all are of the "lets give away the farm"attitude.\nI keep saying that each side of this issue are getting in too big a hurry to claim victory.After all what have the pro illegals won,yet? Nothing,the anti war /anti Bush faction won.I personally will take a wait and see stance on this.\nTime will tell the whole story.In the mean time,I'm contacting my states government,and this nations government officials and letting them know my views on immigration.The fights not over,its only just started.\nNo to blanket amnesty,\nsecure our borders
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I often wonder why the Dem's dont produce a good platform of their own, instead of being purely anti-republican.  If they actually focused on positives that they would bring to the nation, I think they'd get more support
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I think the problem with this country right now is that both sides are grandstanding on each and every topic.  Mainstream America is neither Democratic or Republican.  Most Americans are independent, middle of the road types.  People should use their mind and the situation at hand to determine what stand they should take and what decision should be made.  Make a decision based on what political party you belong to is ludicris.  Call me a liberal Republican or a conservative Democrat, I really don't care.  But do call me an independent self thinking American.
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the total sum of U.S politics is indefinable with a single word, the U.S contains a diversity of opinion from communist parties to fascist parties. However if you want to generalize; well just look at the government they elected, neo-realist / neo-conservative politicians, the same creed that have always maintained a vice like grip on the central executive. You also have to look at the party system, there is only one party in America, the corporate nexus party, the republicans and democrats just have different business interests. There is also the factor of religion, we are talking about a nation of self hating puritans - extremely conservative, racist, armed to the teeth and afraid of anything new or different. I suppose if you were to compare America with other liberal democracies in Europe, it;s clearly the most conservative. I am personally disgusted by the patriotic sensationalism bound to American culture, it's not their fault but it's still pretty repugnant, Americans are generally raised as flag waving, god fearing, isolated, and extremely ignorant young people, and this simply has to change if the world is to stand a chance, it's the most important country in world politics - they need to start getting things right.
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It has shown the far left nuts to be the American-hating losers they have always been.\n\nNotice I did not include all or even a majority of Democrats in this category. First, many Democrats actually support the war - I work with many and serve alongside many in my National Guard unit. Second, there are many Democrats who oppose the war based on well thought-out reasoning and principle. I happen to disagree with them, but they oppose it based on something they perceive as true rather than just hating it because it is chic to bash the President.
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Look how the Clinton staff acted when they moved out of the White House - trashed it, stole stuff, and took the W's off of the typewriters. During the last Presidential election in my state the donkeys slashed tires of Republican vans.  Those guys are in jail now.\n\nThe Democrats are immature and destructive from top - down.
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No more so than the liberal hypocrits like the Kennedy's who gave their moms residence as Florida when she died even though she lived in the Kennedy compoud on Cape Cod.  You see, they didn't want to pay the taxes in Democratic stronghold peoples Republic of Taxachusetts.  The Dems who claim to stand for the average guy, yet tax middle income Americans into oblivion.  The Dems who were in full support of Clinton bombing Bagdad because Saddam had weapons of mass Destruction (something I also supported BTW) but now claim such weapons never existed.\n\nFace it chuckles, neither the left, nor the right has cornered the market on lies and hypocrisy.  If you think one party is more righteous than the other, I would have to question your means of measuring so fine a difference.\n\nThose who live in Glass houses should not throw stones.
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I don't know what your talking about! The problem here in America, is that America is under a one sided party rule, and a Dictatorship with George Bush. There isn't anyone to oppose them right now; because the Democrats can't pass any legislation without it being pushed down. It's all a waist of time until America wakes up and brings back a Democracy to the American people. These people that are in charge of our Government are warmongers and terrorists like Adolf Hitler was. They are even following quite a few of Hitlers ideologies with rule of the Country.