Democratic Stand
I'm tired of the Republican Machine telling everyone through the media that the Democrats Don't Stand for Anything. You/we need a National MediaBlitz/Campaign informing Americans what we stand for such as:
1: Fiscal Responsibility (balance the budget/eliminate our debt, like Clinton did instead of leaving it to our children and grand children to pay our bills….how is that a family value?)
2: Worker's Rights (support for unions so workers actually have a voice….a living wage etc.)
3: Civil Rights (protecting them…free speech zones? Illegal wire taps? This is not America. Our forefathers would not recognize this place if they were here.)
4: Education (fully fund No Child Left Behind & quit cutting secondary education funding. Increase the Pell Grant amount etc.)
5: Health Care (national health insurance plan, every other industrialized nation has it and less money is spent per citizen with better results…don’t let the pharmaceutical companies write our legislation.)
6: Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid (after all it was Democrats/Roosevelt who enacted socialsecurity.)
7: Values of Truth, Honesty & Integrity (promises which Bush made during his first Presidential campaign and are things his administration has failed on all levels to practice and Indictments are plentiful and more to come.)
8. National Security(4plus years later Bin Laden is still out there...Protect our borders, our Ports, all Cargo on airlines, nuclear facilities etc.)
9. Energy Policy(actually have a real one, not one written by the Oil Industry which gives them billions of dollars in grants/free money at a time they are recording record profits and we citizens are paying nearly two times as much as a year ago for gasoline and heating oil/gas.)
10. Environment Policy (a policy that will reduce green house gases, join the Kyoto agreement, stop destroying nature for our large corporations’ financial benefit etc.)
I was listening to Air America Radio (thank God it exists!) yesterday and acouple of liberal voters/callers were stating that the Democratic Party does not "Stand for Anything." This is hogwash/brainwashing successfully implemented by Karl Rove, Karen Hughes and the Republican Win At All Costs Political Machine through the right wing media which is owned mostly by ultra conservative companies. i.e. G.E. ((defense contracts…great business in a time of war)) owns NBC, Fox ((republican mouth piece owned by right winger Rupert Murdoch)), Disney owns ABC, just to mention a few.) It is Past Time that we, our Party the Democratic Party begins to Scream and Yell at every opportunity about Who We Are and the Values We Stand For, like the 10 that I have mentioned above. We have to Pound it in the American Citizens heads, keep saying it. I don't see anyone taking this issue to heart. Our Party is way too Passive. The Least we can do is to let these brainwashed/misinformed American Citizens Know the Values We Stand For. Now is the time. America seems to be in shambles. We are about to lose our Democracy to Fascism. We need to let the American Citizens know our values, what we stand for, the options they have for CHANGE. I Never See One TV Ad or Hear One Radio Spot Hammering Home Our Democratic Values. Let's do it Now!
p.s. The republicans have had complete control of the legislative and executive branch and arguably the judicial branch of our federal government for 5plus years now. If Abortion and Gay Marriage are so important to them why have they not enacted legislation to Outlaw both? Why can’t their base/followers see this point? They have all of the power. Why have they not acted? Is it because these are really just wedge issues, trump cards to get their mindless hate filled base/followers to the polls? Their base/followers should hold them accountable!
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