Can someone explain why the democrats are better than republicans?

Question

I keep hearing all of the liberals in the this country expound on how the republican controlled federal government is horrible and how the democrats have to retake control to right our country. Can some democrat please enlighten me in how the dem's will make the country better?

In all likelihood if the dems win a majority in this election nothing will change. Whomever is in power will continue to bow to the multinational corporate funded lobbyists. Dem's will raise taxes, give themselves another raise, and probably muck up what is happening militarily even more than they are now. Historically Democrats have enlarged conflicts instead of ending them (ie, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam). **Interesting note...During the Goldwater/Johnson campaign the underlying thinking was the if Goldwater was elected the Vietnam military action would become a war....lucky Johnson won.*** My vote is up for grabs here so give me a reason and some facts to back it up that will entice me to your side.

Answer 1

Our government needs to have checks and balances and having just one political party in control causes corruption. Looked what happened with Hitler when he came into power, no one contested what he did. I'm not saying Bush is Hitler, I'm saying we need a 2 party government to make sure we don't turn into a totaliterian government.

Answer 2

It sounds like your question is rhetorical, but here's something you can chew on a bit. The Democrats aren't better than the Republicans, but an argument may be made as whether at this moment Democratic leadership is better for America. The conflict in Iraq has soured the milk for all in power, whether your Dem or GOP. There is no argument that we must wrap it up and get out. But domestic issues and bad faith politics has made it clear that the Republican leadership has run its course. Bush won his second term on a platform banning stem cell research, banning gay marriage, and a faith-based initiative that brought many christian and catholic voters to his side. However, very little has been done in these arenas. Also, many American jobs are continuing to be outsourced to other countries as American businesses continue to enjoy tax breaks for importing jobs. The 'No Child Left Behind' initiative, that enticed so many educators to vote Republican, hasn't lived up to its hype. Enron was a major campaign contributor for Bush. Before Clinton left office, we had budget surplus. When Bush took office, and broke out the tax breaks, which we haven't seen since the first two years of his presidency, the deficit is back up.

Bottom line is, you know who and how you will vote. And you already know why. Regardless of the party line you subscribe to, Americans should vote their concience with a true picture of the facts. Then you should pressure your representative in Congress to enforce your will.

Answer 3

Here is a link to an interview conducted for democracy now. It is with Matt Taibbi, he is a reporter for the rolling stones. He has written an article titled 'The worst congress ever'. It seems from what he says here that with the majority control combined with an elitist attitude the current government is behaving in a way completely out of control. I don't know how much better the Dem's would be but at least with them in control of the house someone would be able to control bush.


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/27/1340203

MATT TAIBBI: Well, the Republicans have basically figured out a way to totally exclude the minority from the process. You know, obviously if you have the majority in Congress, you're going to have most of the influence anyway. But traditionally, in Congress, there's been a power-sharing agreement. Bills were usually made up in session between the minority and the majority, and the two parties always worked together to make up major legislation. That’s done now in Congress; that doesn't happen anymore.

A great example is that conference committees, where when you have the conference that hammers out the differences between the Senate and the House versions of bills, traditionally both parties work in that conference committee to create the final version of the bill. Well, this congress has sort of pioneered a new method of handling the conferences. What they'll do is they'll have -- by law, they have to have one conference that includes Democrats. They'll have a five-minute meeting, where the Democrats are there. They'll take a picture, and then they’ll kick the Democrats out, and they’ll hold the real meeting later, and they won't tell the Democrats where it is. And you get this situation that results -- it's really like, you know, an elementary school thing, where they won't tell the Democrats where it is, so the Democratic minority member will have to go around Congress literally searching for the conference, knocking on doors, saying, “Are you inside?”

AMY GOODMAN: Give us an example.

MATT TAIBBI: There was a famous example, where the Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Bill Thomas, the congressman from California, he didn't tell the ranking minority member, who was Charlie Rangel here from New York, he didn't tell him where the conference was, and Rangel went around the Congress looking for this conference, knocking on doors, and he finally finds it. He knocks on the door, and the Republicans hid behind the door, pretending that they weren't inside, literally, like little kids. They hid in there. You know, one congressional aide said it was like the old SNL skit, “Land Shark,” where Charlie Rangel was the land shark, the Republicans wouldn't open the door.

They finally opened it, and Thomas says to Rangel, he says, “Sorry, this is only for the coalition of the willing,” and he basically kicked Rangel out of the room -- actually, I’m sorry, they packed up their stuff, and they left, and they held the conference someplace else. And this kind of stuff happens at every level, at every stage of the congressional process now. So, everywhere where you used to have meetings between the two parties, where they would work things out, the Republicans just disallow participation by the Democrats.

Answer 4

Pelosi finished plenty as speaker. decrease than her administration wellbeing care reform became into surpassed, no small feat - ask bill Clinton. you need to calculate her effectiveness by skill of utilising the quantity to which conservatives tried to demonize her. I look to remember Newt Gingrich to close down government and left on ethics expenses. Denny Haster wasn't a great sort of an progression - prescription drug bill surpassed at 3 AM, unfunded and extra to the deficit. Pelosi may well be as or extra valuable because of the fact the a number of Democrat in managing Republicans who've been pushed a concepts on a thank you to the suited interior the appropriate election. optimal audio gadget who lost their place retired, Pelosi has the braveness to stay.

Answer 5

I don't think you should normally vote Democrat or Republican just because they are one or the other. Right now, the Republicans have all the cards-President and both houses. I would ask "What have they done for the country?" and "Am I better off today than I was?" If the incumbents haven't done what you've asked(C'mon, if bills haven't passed, it's not the Democrats fault right now-they don't have a majority-). The Republicans could pass anything if they wanted to put onto their agenda. (Immigration Reform, Social Security reform, Healthcare Reform

If you like the way things are going, keep 'em in-tell 'em you don't mind our huge US debt is owned 51% by foreign entities, you don't expect them to act on immigration reform or enforcement of the law we have, you'd rather not have employers that hire illegal labor inconvenienced by checking papers and you certainly think your job is grand. If you're unhappy with what's getting done, kick 'em out. And watch them to make sure. Project Vote Smart tracks votes on all your politicians and also has lots of info about how our government works.

Answer 6

NO . National Security is the biggest challenge facing America - but the last democrat president thought more of golf tournaments than National Security-which -in keeping with the democrat record of depleting our military and arms - pretty much sums it up . There are countless issues that can be debated -but they are all secondary if we are not protected militarily . Our economy is really doing better than good - and unemployment is the lowest in our history , at 4% -but what does that mean if our country is attacked again ?

Answer 7

I'm a registered Republican, but that doesn't mean I vote straight ticket. I look at the best person for the job. Dems are in favor of abortion rights and gay rights. R's are not. R's are better with taking care of small businesses and foreign policy. I don't pick a side, I pick the best platform regardless of affiliation.

I do not believe one candidate can encompass everyone's beliefs in one package. Unless people are sheep and only believe what people tell them to believe instead of thinking with their own minds.

Answer 8

Neither of them are worth a hill of beans or the dynamite it would take to blow them up.


Vote for anyone that is not Democrat or Republican. It's the only way we will get control of the gov't back from politicans.

Answer 9

Neither is better than the other. No matter who's in power they manage to screw things up. All politicians are out for themselves not the people & not their party. All they want is money & power.

Answer 10

I don't understand what you mean by "democrats" and "republicans" -- just shut up and vote either "socialist party A" or "socialist party B"