Is the democrat party more of a socialist party now? I would like serious thoughts on this question?

Question

please just answer the question with a through analysis of the reasons for your answer no name calling no refering to "neocons" whatever that term really means

scourge you are to pent up in ur liberal hate that u cant follow simple instructions, but then you are typical of most leftist

Answer 1

I am a socialist. The Democratic Party is just another plutocratic/capitalist party.

(And yes, it is the Democratic Party. Not the Democrat Party, and not the Democratic Socialist Party, which is a third party. It was originally named the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1790s and has been the Democratic Party since the 1830s.)

Any political system favors certain approaches. The American system favors parties which can draw money from large donors, spend money on advertising campaigns, and scrape together slightly more of the vote than the other party. There are no run-off elections. The voting system discourages parties from opposing each other, so right now one party supports the occupation of Iraq, and the NSA spying, and so on, and the other enables them, even though the public opposes them. The funding system encourages parties which subsidize their donors.

The result: both parties support policies which restrict labor organizing, e.g. the Taft-Hartley Act, and support policies which subsidize foreign trade, e.g. NAFTA, subsidize factory farming, subsidize oil consumption, create artificial property rights to publicly-funded research, etc. These are all statist policies and mostly anti-worker policies.

I don't think this depends on the screwy features of the electoral system. The same things happen with proportional nonrepresentation as with district-based nonrepresentation.

The problem is the state, and its built-in power to tax one group to subsidize another group. That's what props capitalist businesses up and keeps worker cooperatives and self-employed workers down.

Answer 2

Hilliary is no doubt on the edge of being a socialist. Some of the other candidates are more moderate than she is. She is holding back as much of her socialistic beliefs as she can until she gets elected so then she can not worry about the voters and press forward her agenda. O'Bama is clearly out of his league with all the other candidates, he looks like a deer in the headlights when asked a serious question. Edwards is the real heavyweight that can challenge Clinton and the mud will be slung in earnest soon.

Answer 3

The democrats are trying to introduce some socialist concepts into the economy, but they are far from the full state control of total socialism.
That however, is an almost pointless distinction. Using total government control as the litmus test for socialism, fails because that brand of socialism is practiced today only in Cuba and North Korea.
Even "Communist" China has some unregulated economic sectors.
So, claiming they aren't socialist because they aren't to the left of the Chinese Communist Party, is either naive or dishonest, depending on the intent of the claim.
The Democrat's are far more socialist than any major party before in US politics. Even Republicans now embrace a degree of government involvement in peoples lives that the Democrats would have found extreme fifty years ago.
Taking all that into consideration, both US parties are less socialist than is normal in much of the rest of the world.

Answer 4

Yes ! To the point that Liberal Socialist Wing of the democratic party continues to want "government to fix all problems " ! There is only one major problem with this Democratic Liberal Socialist Therory & Agenda. To this day no one can give one example of a problem that a Liberal Socialist brought attention to and "solved" the problem with a solution so that the problem went away ! Liberal Socialist do not want problems to be solved . If problems get solved , then Liberal Socialist have no power base from which to make false promises and tax , tax , tax . The very best example of this mantra of the Liberal Socialist is the one that is so evident to all of us ! Your Lyndon Baines Johnson , ( D ) President of the United States came up with a plan in the mid 60`s to solve the problems of the "less forunate" in the USA . So ; he and his Liberals in Congress did this by "stealing" all of the U.S. citizens Social Security Funds that were never meant to be made available for the "Congress" to get their hands on ! All those billions of dollars just growing and growing year after year , well this was too much for LBJ and his Liberal Socialist controlled Congress to endure . All that money to them was like a cocaine addict finding a "free" lifetime suppy of concaine ! Now 40 years later ; does the problem still exist that LBJ stole the SS Fund money to solve ? YES it does ; Not only does the problem still exist , it has grown into a complete welfare state of dependants that dwarfs the problem in the 60`s !! Did the Liberal Socialist solve this problem , NO it did not ! Did it create a way to fund more "government dependent" jobs` ? YES it did ! Does it continue to funnel money into this Liberal Socialist Democratic way of "solving a problem" ; Yes it does ! As I started this answer , the question to a Liberal Socialist still remains ; name one , only one , one problem that a Liberal Socailist plan to eliminate or to solve a problem has ever worked , and made the problem go away ? I`ll save you some time and solve the answer for you ! "Never" is your answer !

Answer 5

National Socialist German Workers' Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) in German, or because it was once identified in English as NAZI Party had been Socialists. Regardless of the rhetoric, Republicans are NOT NAZI's. George W. Bush was once an fool, however he was once no longer evil.

Answer 6

No. Look at the liberal parties in any European country, look at the liberal democrats of Canada.. They make the US Democratic Party look like quite conservative and behind the ball on many issues.

Many on the right love to write off Democrats as socialists when they are far from it. Anyone who knows what socialism entails should know that the party platform of the DNC is far from it.

The Green Party is far more socialist than the Democrats.

Answer 7

The far left of the democratic party definitely is since they want the poor and middle class to be wards of the state so they can have the votes of these classes each year as they dole out more in entitlement programs that will lead to bigger and bigger tax needs that impact us all.

Answer 8

It may be more socialist now, but its always leaned towards collectivism and away from freedom.

FDR created the first big move toward socialism with the creation of the socialist security system. LBJ moved us farther to the left with Medicare. The current crop of Democratics candidates are all for socialized medicine and government seizure of Oil Company and Pharmacutical assets.

The important thing to remember is that the distinction between socialism and communism is that socialism is the means and communism is the end of those means. The Democratics are socialist with the ultimate aim as Marx put it to incrementally move us towards collectivist slavery.

Answer 9

i don't think the democratic party is socialist i thinks its based more on Communism.they think our government has the duty to provide everyone in the country with work,even those that are here illegally

Answer 10

Actually the original name of the democratic party was the democratic socialist party of America