I haven't seen this. Ever since 94, the Dems have NEVER looked at themselves to see out what they were doing wrong. It was always someone else's fault - "the Reps used scare tactics, the voters are ignorant, the Reps stole elections, the Reps prevented us from getting our message out [as if they ever HAD much of a message...]" etc.
This "win" for the Dems will be easily lost in 08 if that party does not take a good look at itself and what it has done wrong, and how it fails to connect with people, and why many people find them distasteful.
While they did win, they barely squeaked by, and the margin of majority in both houses is razor thin. It was hardly a resounding victory, and hardly a "mandate" from the voters that they wanted a wholesale change.
What say you? Remember, I'm talking about the Dems here - yes, the Reps have messed up with their base, but they DID hold power for the past 14 years. So they did SOMETHING right, at least for a little while.
Love Jack
2006-11-11 04:10:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
it comes in at the basic grassroots level of organization...the Democrats are very diverse...environmentalists, bluecollar workers, socialists, libertarian and even moderate conservatives and Constitutionalists. They contradict each other and cooperate to form a unified (eventually) platform. I participated in the Iowa caucus several times and understand it to be a free networking of ideas until the conventions where leaders are selected on their platforms thru election. It is very democratic and free...I see the Republican party built similarly except the platforms are much more confined, the items bigger and fewer because their ideology is based on the ideology that giving to the rich ensures stability of society....the Democrats are basically opposite and believe the workers give the corporations their riches. In the Democratic party it is much less about a central set of bosses (big moneyed corporations) setting the standards. I think the original founders of this country wanted a slow, unwieldy government that was forced to act slowly to decide the issues (other than imminent invasion).
The Democrats and Republicans (in theory) are the perfect set of Yin and Yang this country needs to be balanced. But, I believe the Democrats would have to be corrupt at the level of the recent Republican scandals to lose in '08...after that the natural tweaking of the direction by the voters consciences will decide to move Right or Left.
2006-11-11 04:35:23 · answer #1 · answered by Ford Prefect 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-26 20:25:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, I think there will be a huge backlash to Democrats in the next election. I mean, when the Democrat leadership says that they will pass a bad bill into law that the majority of the people don't want means that they think that they are better then us and know more than us.
2016-05-22 05:20:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, the republicans truly did something right- Its just that nobody is really sure what it was that they did.
I agree that the democratic party is a group of people who self-criticize their agenda, their motives, and their policies. Its very tempting to use all of that power, money, and influence for self-serving interests.. and I think that all politicians do that in one degree or another. So they clear their conscience by channeling that energy into social programs.
2006-11-11 04:18:57 · answer #4 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What tossed the Repub's out was there National Inquirer rhetoric, it gets to be old news after 6 years.
2006-11-11 04:16:07 · answer #5 · answered by edubya 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are a party of BS-ism!
What tossed the repubs out was alot of Americans with short memories.
If Kerry would have taken office in 04 I think every state in US would have seen some sort of terrorist activity by 07.
2006-11-11 04:16:02 · answer #6 · answered by Buff 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hah! The Democraps, like the Repooplicans, are a party of self-righteousness.
2006-11-11 04:23:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Totally agree
2006-11-11 04:15:43 · answer #8 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was wondering about that statement also. I have never, i mean this, never heard a demo take responsibility for a mistake, even Clinton could not without lying.
It is sort of funny. People wonder why I don't vote demo, well, if they could take responsibility, maybe I would
Love Scorbore
2006-11-11 04:15:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
they always have been, no other political party in the world looks into themselves as much as the American left.
2006-11-11 04:14:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋