what is a Democrat ? what is a republican?

Question

what are you

Answer 1

Just thought I might enhance the above reply:

Democrat: One who advocates or practices social equality, i.e. redistribution of wealth.

Democrats believe that the government has a very important role to play in the lives of the people. They tend to ignore the negatives that this role can play by inhibiting freedom.

Government is to protect the people from unsafe drugs (Federal drug administration), but not illegal drugs,

insure fair competition and promotes anti monopoly behavior, including taxing big business excessively,

promotes opportunities for the people, to the point of forcing businesses to *provide* certain jobs or salaries, not just promoting them.

regulates commerce and goes against unfair business practices.

including going beyond the Constitutional mandate to regulate *interstate* commerce, Dems believe they can regulate *ALL* commerce, when it gets them a few more dedicated voters.

Then, the reply above angages in outright lies, by claiming that republicans fought against blacks and immigrants. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was fillibustered by Democrats, most notably Robert Byrd of WV, noted KKK member. Republicans voted FOR the Civil Rights Act in much greater percentage of their members than Democrats. Republicans voted for amnesty for illegals in the 80s.

Then, the reply above laments that Republicans are for the second amendment...amazing...

Answer 2

One who advocates or practices social equality is commonly referred to as a democrat.
In practice, democrats believe that the government has a very important role to play in the live of the people. Government is to protect the people from unsafe drugs (Federal drug administration), insure fair competition and promotes anti monopoly behavior, promotes opportunities for the people, regulates commerce and goes against unfair business practices. Most of the great movements of the 20th century in the USA were favored by democrats and opposed by the republicans. Labor, women, blacks, immigrants and other minorities were championed by the democrats and fought by the republicans.
The republicans want a small, aloof government and are, most of the time, in favor of the corporations, the rich and armaments. (For guns too).

Answer 3

A Democrat is someone who registered as a Democrat; a Republican is someone who registered as a Republican and the rest of us vote for people and issues regardless of party.

Answer 4

Same Frickin Thing!

Differences in ideology in the US are really Conservative against Leftist (no other term because there are so many variations, Socialist, Global Warmingist, Communist, Animal more important than manist, Anti-Defense of the nationist, America is always the badguyist, etc, etc, etc)

The politicians in the political parties are all the same ashole. They believe in the same thing they act the same way they fight over insignificant legislation but at the end of the day the both just want to control you.

Answer 5

Republican-

A gun nut. A superstitous follower of iron age mythology. Someone that is so wealthy that they have become selfish. A person afraid of people unlike themselves. A person that has ignored America since Watergate. A wannabe of the above.

Democrat-

None of the above and someone that is willing to sacrifice the now for long term progress.

Answer 6

Two seperate parts of or counrty's politics. It is more defined as liberal(democrat) and conservative(republican)

Answer 7

Today I think it has really shifted to being a free market person who is for personal responsibility versus a socialist who wants government intervention in our daily lives, up to and including telling us how many pieces of toilet paper we can use to wipe our a**es.

Next thing you know they are going to start telling us what an acceptable level of cholesterol is and how many Big Macs we can have week.

Democratic communism at its finest

Answer 8

Like this...A Democrat is more progressive and available for idealistic suggestions, new and innovative solutions. They are sometimes referred to as Liberals.
A Republican is a conservative and more reserved in thought and action with less inclination to change and less receptive to new ideas.

Answer 9

I'm going to assume no guile to your question, so these will probably give you the straightest answer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative

To help determine your political position:
-- 10 question quiz; good info on political positions:
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
-- More in-depth quiz; world view of political positions, including US Presidential candidates:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/

I'm a Libertarian... if you read the links above, you'll understand why I answered your question this way. :-)

Answer 10

A Democrat is a member of the Democratic party.
A Republican is a member of the Republican party.

The Democrats are pretty well split between liberals and socialists -- they agree on the value of personal freedom and diversity, but disagree on how to spend money. Liberal economics demands free market and minimal govt regulation of business -- fiscal socialists want high taxes and demand heavy govt regulation of industry and charity.

The Republicans are pretty well split between fiscal conservatives and neo-conservatives -- they agree on the importance of conformity and support govt regulation of personal behavior. They disagree on whether the govt should be large and spend lots of money (neo-cons) or be small and not spend lots of money (fiscal conservatives).