my dad says once democrats hold a majority in office..the US will go downhill...why?

Question

i don't want to hear opinions...i know many people disagree...but i just want to know why he would think this?

Answer 1

There is no correct answer to that. A claim like that is very opinionated. Some do not share the same views as the democrats and think that they cause more damage to a government than help it, while other people agree with their views and think they help the government in a better way than any other party.

The reason your father made that claim is probably because he does not agree with key issues with the democrats.

Answer 2

The US has already gone downhill. Family values is a joke. The weapons of mass destruction was a lie. The war in Iraq is a waste of billions of dollars a day and human life. No health care for the poor is a sad reality. Corporate America's tax free status is a disgrace. Global warming is an ignored reality. Katrina is a disgrace. The Sudan and Darfur and international horrors. etc.

Answer 3

Most of the current Democrats are socialists seeking to establish the New World Order, of which they will totally control every aspect of our lives, thus literally enslaving the world populace leaving only extremely wealthy and powerful dictators=them, and extremely poor brainwashed zombies=us:(

Answer 4

Democrats like to redistribute wealth in the form of social programs. One country that built thier government on social programs was the USSR. That plan failed and they are still trying to recoup. People in the US are smart enough to take care of their own money. Right now we are being allowed to do that.

Answer 5

The first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln. His stand as the author of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves on January 1st of 1863 during the Civil War, insured that the South would curse his Republican Party for almost a hundred years. The Democratic Party held the White House and mostly the Congress too, for most of the first two thirds of the 20th century. The Republican, Herbert Hoover, was in place when the Depression set in and the people never forgot how little he really did to get them out of it. Franklin Roosevelt took us out of it and through World War II also, after winning in 1932. Then again for 3 more terms after that. Then came the death of John F.Kennedy by assassination in 1963. The infamous senator from Texas, Lyndon Johnson, was Vice-President and he assumed the Presidency on November 22, 1963 after Kennedy's death. In 1964 he won his own presidential term for himself against a very conservative Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who was a reserve Air Force General, and who said he would consider using "tactical" nuclear weapons in Viet Nam. Johnson's legacy, he assumed, was to do what the very popular Democrat, John F. Kennedy, could not do, and that was to get the Civil Rights legislation through the Congress in 1965. The South saw what the Democrat from Texas had done, and they were so angry that slowly but surely over the course of the next 20 years every southern state literally changed its allegience from Democrat to Republican. I saw this happen personally here in Florida. Therefore, the Republicans have occupied the White House for all but 12 of the last 40 years since 1965. But they have dominated the Congress for only the last 12 of those 40 years. Looking back at the last 100 years what have the Republican Presidents done. Calvin Cooledge, known as "Silent Cal" because of his lackadaisical affect while he squandered the rest of his term away doing nothing, took over after the death of Republican, Warren G. Harding, catagorically the worst president known up to that point. He was chasing secrataries through the White House, and was caught with one in a closet by his own wife doing worse things then Clinton ever thought of doing. We already mentioned Herbert Hoover who sat around twiddling his thumbs while America and the world crumbled in the Depression Years. Eisenhower The famous WW II Gerneral, played golf While the Russians put up the first satellite, and eventually the first dog, and finally the first human into space. We eventually beat them only because of the initiatives that Kennedy inspired in us. Nixon had first his Vice-President, Spiro Agnew resign because of indictments for corruption as Maryland Governor. This brought up Gerald Ford as Vice-President who became the only unelected President of the United States of America when Nixon himself had to resign for his own corruption in ordering the Watergate burglary to help him win the election of 1972. Then we have the "B" Movie actor made President, Ronald Reagan, who quoted movie plots in his speeches as though they were real. Covering up the most dangerous plot to circumvent the American people known to this date, The Iran-Contra Affair. Leaving office as an alzheimer's patient saying he could remember nothing about the Iran-Contra Affair, and his lack of leadership against the AIDS epidemic, even though his own son was a professed Gay man. Then we have George Walker Herbert Bush who could not read his own lips and pissed off his conservative cronies and raised their taxes. Now we have Gerge W. Bush, need I say more? This is the Republican Legacy your father is so proud of. Trust me there are corrupt, useless, dysfuntional Democrats too, but I will put my money on them this go around as I have seen nothing to be proud of during their last 100 years. At least we had a budget surplus when Clinton left office. That is more then any Republican has done before him. Now each man woman and child in this country owes (43 trillion dollars in debt / 300,000,000 people) $143,333. Now I ask you is that conservative?

Answer 6

Well, if your dad's smart enough to voice his opinion then ask HIM why he says so. If he IS smart enough then he'll be able to give a real, UNBIASED explanation. I'd actually like to hear it.

Answer 7

I don't think that's particularly true...I'm mean after all look what Bush and his so-called Republican party has done.

Answer 8

Because he is a Republican. Why don't you ask him why he thinks that?

Answer 9

ask him