6 Questions for Democrats

[Spare_change]

It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. She’s unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.” On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party? We’re in an age where people have almost infinite choice when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about everything else. Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be forced on everyone. Don’t like gay marriage in your state? Too bad. Don’t want Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it – and LIKE IT. Democrats are so proud that they believe in “choice” when it comes to abortion - even though the father and the baby have no choice. So why not allow other people to live like they choose?

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police? Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly approved set of liberal values. We’ve actually gotten to the point where Democrats can’t even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints on campus. Whatever happened to being open-minded? Whatever happened to tolerating other viewpoints? Don’t Democrats need to learn how to do that again?

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans? If you’re a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating rape culture. If you’re white, they accuse you of being privileged. If you’re a Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists. If you’re a non-liberal woman, you’re constantly told that women who hold you in contempt and don’t represent your views speak for you. If you’re moderate, for all intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as you’re told. Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack off a liberal college professor. At some point, if you want to represent people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about in a way that they appreciate. Democrats have abandoned this idea and have started explaining to Americans that they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them. That’s not how you make friends and influence people.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme? Democrats from the Clinton years would think today’s Democrats are nuts and Democrats from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before they’d vote for the radicalism that has been embraced by today’s Democrat Party. Gay marriage, men in the women’s restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders – these are radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short period of time. At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved too far, too fast?

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending? Democrats seem to start every discussion with the assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to liberal interest groups and for votes. Meanwhile, we’re almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we can pay Social Security and Medicare. This is an unsustainable situation and, whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two. Can the Democrat Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars? One way or another, we’re going to find out.
6 Questions Democrats Should be Asking Themselves Right Now

 

[emilynghiem]

At this point, it's all about playing perceptions in the media.
Nothing to do with real life policy or solutions.
Whatever can get media attention and publicity,
that's controlling the talking points in the policies.

I'm a Democrat, and I'm sick of this nonsense too!

 

[konradv]

In '64 the Republican Party died, never to rise again.

 

[TheOldSchool]

It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. She’s unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.” On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party? We’re in an age where people have almost infinite choice when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about everything else. Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be forced on everyone. Don’t like gay marriage in your state? Too bad. Don’t want Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it – and LIKE IT. Democrats are so proud that they believe in “choice” when it comes to abortion - even though the father and the baby have no choice. So why not allow other people to live like they choose?

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police? Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly approved set of liberal values. We’ve actually gotten to the point where Democrats can’t even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints on campus. Whatever happened to being open-minded? Whatever happened to tolerating other viewpoints? Don’t Democrats need to learn how to do that again?

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans? If you’re a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating rape culture. If you’re white, they accuse you of being privileged. If you’re a Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists. If you’re a non-liberal woman, you’re constantly told that women who hold you in contempt and don’t represent your views speak for you. If you’re moderate, for all intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as you’re told. Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack off a liberal college professor. At some point, if you want to represent people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about in a way that they appreciate. Democrats have abandoned this idea and have started explaining to Americans that they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them. That’s not how you make friends and influence people.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme? Democrats from the Clinton years would think today’s Democrats are nuts and Democrats from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before they’d vote for the radicalism that has been embraced by today’s Democrat Party. Gay marriage, men in the women’s restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders – these are radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short period of time. At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved too far, too fast?

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending? Democrats seem to start every discussion with the assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to liberal interest groups and for votes. Meanwhile, we’re almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we can pay Social Security and Medicare. This is an unsustainable situation and, whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two. Can the Democrat Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars? One way or another, we’re going to find out.
6 Questions Democrats Should be Asking Themselves Right Now

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously?

She may have been the most qualified candidate for the Presidency of all time

Anyways, Trump has a potential FBI indictment hanging over his head, and republicans don't care. And his Presidency is going as disastrously as we warned you it would, but republicans don't seem to care about that either.

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party?

We do let people live like they choose. Although, of course, we stop those who are trying to stop people from living as they choose.

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police?

You want to go scream insanities on a college campus? Go ahead. Just don't harass students, and don't hinder their movement going from class to class. You should probably call and ask where you can do this before you go, because those students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be there, and they've asked schools to protect them from unwanted harassment and solicitation.

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans?

Yes. Try not to get too mad when we try to stop you from inflicting magical beliefs on minority groups that think differently than you. If Islam or some other religion ever starts trying to write their religion into the law, I promise we'll fight that too.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme?

There were more Bernie nutters than expected, but my hope is that's because a lot of Democrats fell for the stupid bullshit you righties were peddling. Bernie would have gone nowhere if you rubes hadn't spewed that Hillary sent top secret information to our enemies and ordered the attack on Benghazi.

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending?

Republicans can, so why not?

 

[Timmy]

Let's address #6 spending .

Where is the GOP platform are they shrinking the debt ???

They want to increase defense spending.! At least when the Dems spend, it's to benefit the American people .

 

[TheOldSchool]

Let's address #6 spending .

Where is the GOP platform are they shrinking the debt ???

They want to increase defense spending.! At least when the Dems spend, it's to benefit the American people .

If McCain/Palin had won, our auto industry would be gone and the economy still tanked, but at least we'd have another 10 or 20 Aircraft Carriers.

 

[12icer]

It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. She’s unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.” On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party? We’re in an age where people have almost infinite choice when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about everything else. Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be forced on everyone. Don’t like gay marriage in your state? Too bad. Don’t want Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it – and LIKE IT. Democrats are so proud that they believe in “choice” when it comes to abortion - even though the father and the baby have no choice. So why not allow other people to live like they choose?

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police? Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly approved set of liberal values. We’ve actually gotten to the point where Democrats can’t even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints on campus. Whatever happened to being open-minded? Whatever happened to tolerating other viewpoints? Don’t Democrats need to learn how to do that again?

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans? If you’re a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating rape culture. If you’re white, they accuse you of being privileged. If you’re a Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists. If you’re a non-liberal woman, you’re constantly told that women who hold you in contempt and don’t represent your views speak for you. If you’re moderate, for all intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as you’re told. Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack off a liberal college professor. At some point, if you want to represent people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about in a way that they appreciate. Democrats have abandoned this idea and have started explaining to Americans that they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them. That’s not how you make friends and influence people.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme? Democrats from the Clinton years would think today’s Democrats are nuts and Democrats from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before they’d vote for the radicalism that has been embraced by today’s Democrat Party. Gay marriage, men in the women’s restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders – these are radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short period of time. At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved too far, too fast?

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending? Democrats seem to start every discussion with the assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to liberal interest groups and for votes. Meanwhile, we’re almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we can pay Social Security and Medicare. This is an unsustainable situation and, whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two. Can the Democrat Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars? One way or another, we’re going to find out.
6 Questions Democrats Should be Asking Themselves Right Now

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously?

She may have been the most qualified candidate for the Presidency of all time

Anyways, Trump has a potential FBI indictment hanging over his head, and republicans don't care. And his Presidency is going as disastrously as we warned you it would, but republicans don't seem to care about that either.

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party?

We do let people live like they choose. Although, of course, we stop those who are trying to stop people from living as they choose.

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police?

You want to go scream insanities on a college campus? Go ahead. Just don't harass students, and don't hinder their movement going from class to class. You should probably call and ask where you can do this before you go, because those students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be there, and they've asked schools to protect them from unwanted harassment and solicitation.

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans?

Yes. Try not to get too mad when we try to stop you from inflicting magical beliefs on minority groups that think differently than you. If Islam or some other religion ever starts trying to write their religion into the law, I promise we'll fight that too.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme?

There were more Bernie nutters than expected, but my hope is that's because a lot of Democrats fell for the stupid bullshit you righties were peddling. Bernie would have gone nowhere if you rubes hadn't spewed that Hillary sent top secret information to our enemies and ordered the attack on Benghazi.

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending?

Republicans can, so why not?

I thought these would be the answers you got, There is no difference in those who supported a TREASONOUS pile of shit as president three times in a row from the actual agenda to destroy this country, and subjugate those with a dissenting opinion by taking away their constitutional rights. It is their goal to build a worldwide ruling class that MAKES everyone do as they say with no question and remove them by any means they wish including genocide. Liberals are all of the things they label others to be and MOST glaringly exact DUPLICATES of the GERMAN NAZI party under hitler.

 

[TheOldSchool]

It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. She’s unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.” On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party? We’re in an age where people have almost infinite choice when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about everything else. Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be forced on everyone. Don’t like gay marriage in your state? Too bad. Don’t want Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it – and LIKE IT. Democrats are so proud that they believe in “choice” when it comes to abortion - even though the father and the baby have no choice. So why not allow other people to live like they choose?

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police? Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly approved set of liberal values. We’ve actually gotten to the point where Democrats can’t even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints on campus. Whatever happened to being open-minded? Whatever happened to tolerating other viewpoints? Don’t Democrats need to learn how to do that again?

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans? If you’re a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating rape culture. If you’re white, they accuse you of being privileged. If you’re a Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists. If you’re a non-liberal woman, you’re constantly told that women who hold you in contempt and don’t represent your views speak for you. If you’re moderate, for all intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as you’re told. Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack off a liberal college professor. At some point, if you want to represent people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about in a way that they appreciate. Democrats have abandoned this idea and have started explaining to Americans that they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them. That’s not how you make friends and influence people.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme? Democrats from the Clinton years would think today’s Democrats are nuts and Democrats from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before they’d vote for the radicalism that has been embraced by today’s Democrat Party. Gay marriage, men in the women’s restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders – these are radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short period of time. At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved too far, too fast?

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending? Democrats seem to start every discussion with the assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to liberal interest groups and for votes. Meanwhile, we’re almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we can pay Social Security and Medicare. This is an unsustainable situation and, whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two. Can the Democrat Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars? One way or another, we’re going to find out.
6 Questions Democrats Should be Asking Themselves Right Now

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously?

She may have been the most qualified candidate for the Presidency of all time

Anyways, Trump has a potential FBI indictment hanging over his head, and republicans don't care. And his Presidency is going as disastrously as we warned you it would, but republicans don't seem to care about that either.

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party?

We do let people live like they choose. Although, of course, we stop those who are trying to stop people from living as they choose.

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police?

You want to go scream insanities on a college campus? Go ahead. Just don't harass students, and don't hinder their movement going from class to class. You should probably call and ask where you can do this before you go, because those students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be there, and they've asked schools to protect them from unwanted harassment and solicitation.

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans?

Yes. Try not to get too mad when we try to stop you from inflicting magical beliefs on minority groups that think differently than you. If Islam or some other religion ever starts trying to write their religion into the law, I promise we'll fight that too.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme?

There were more Bernie nutters than expected, but my hope is that's because a lot of Democrats fell for the stupid bullshit you righties were peddling. Bernie would have gone nowhere if you rubes hadn't spewed that Hillary sent top secret information to our enemies and ordered the attack on Benghazi.

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending?

Republicans can, so why not?

I thought these would be the answers you got, There is no difference in those who supported a TREASONOUS pile of shit as president three times in a row from the actual agenda to destroy this country, and subjugate those with a dissenting opinion by taking away their constitutional rights. It is their goal to build a worldwide ruling class that MAKES everyone do as they say with no question and remove them by any means they wish including genocide. Liberals are all of the things they label others to be and MOST glaringly exact DUPLICATES of the GERMAN NAZI party under hitler.

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[Timmy]

#1. Hillary ?

Yes. She's super qualified, on paper at least . I wanted Biden myself .

But let's compare wh the GOP guy. Don trump ! A reality tv goofball with zero governing experience. He whipped all the best the GOP had to offer .

 

[Andylusion]

It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. She’s unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.” On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party? We’re in an age where people have almost infinite choice when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about everything else. Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be forced on everyone. Don’t like gay marriage in your state? Too bad. Don’t want Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it – and LIKE IT. Democrats are so proud that they believe in “choice” when it comes to abortion - even though the father and the baby have no choice. So why not allow other people to live like they choose?

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police? Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly approved set of liberal values. We’ve actually gotten to the point where Democrats can’t even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints on campus. Whatever happened to being open-minded? Whatever happened to tolerating other viewpoints? Don’t Democrats need to learn how to do that again?

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans? If you’re a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating rape culture. If you’re white, they accuse you of being privileged. If you’re a Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists. If you’re a non-liberal woman, you’re constantly told that women who hold you in contempt and don’t represent your views speak for you. If you’re moderate, for all intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as you’re told. Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack off a liberal college professor. At some point, if you want to represent people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about in a way that they appreciate. Democrats have abandoned this idea and have started explaining to Americans that they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them. That’s not how you make friends and influence people.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme? Democrats from the Clinton years would think today’s Democrats are nuts and Democrats from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before they’d vote for the radicalism that has been embraced by today’s Democrat Party. Gay marriage, men in the women’s restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders – these are radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short period of time. At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved too far, too fast?

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending? Democrats seem to start every discussion with the assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to liberal interest groups and for votes. Meanwhile, we’re almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we can pay Social Security and Medicare. This is an unsustainable situation and, whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two. Can the Democrat Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars? One way or another, we’re going to find out.
6 Questions Democrats Should be Asking Themselves Right Now

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously?

She may have been the most qualified candidate for the Presidency of all time

Anyways, Trump has a potential FBI indictment hanging over his head, and republicans don't care. And his Presidency is going as disastrously as we warned you it would, but republicans don't seem to care about that either.

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party?

We do let people live like they choose. Although, of course, we stop those who are trying to stop people from living as they choose.

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police?

You want to go scream insanities on a college campus? Go ahead. Just don't harass students, and don't hinder their movement going from class to class. You should probably call and ask where you can do this before you go, because those students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be there, and they've asked schools to protect them from unwanted harassment and solicitation.

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans?

Yes. Try not to get too mad when we try to stop you from inflicting magical beliefs on minority groups that think differently than you. If Islam or some other religion ever starts trying to write their religion into the law, I promise we'll fight that too.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme?

There were more Bernie nutters than expected, but my hope is that's because a lot of Democrats fell for the stupid bullshit you righties were peddling. Bernie would have gone nowhere if you rubes hadn't spewed that Hillary sent top secret information to our enemies and ordered the attack on Benghazi.

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending?

Republicans can, so why not?

She may have been the most qualified candidate for the Presidency of all time

Yeah, like Al Capone may have been the most qualified alcohol dealer of all time.

We do let people live like they choose. Although, of course, we stop those who are trying to stop people from living as they choose.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ly-pizzeria-wont-cater-gay-weddings/70813430/

Your statements, don't match your actions.

You want to go scream insanities on a college campus? Go ahead. Just don't harass students, and don't hinder their movement going from class to class. You should probably call and ask where you can do this before you go, because those students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be there, and they've asked schools to protect them from unwanted harassment and solicitation.

Berkeley College Republicans Face Violence, Harassment Following Milo Yiannopoulos Riots

Practice what you preach brother Baptist preacher.

Yes. Try not to get too mad when we try to stop you from inflicting magical beliefs on minority groups that think differently than you. If Islam or some other religion ever starts trying to write their religion into the law, I promise we'll fight that too.

Get ready for Muslim riots. That's where your beliefs lead too. The key to peace and unity in any group of people, is assimilation. Without that, you end up with riots and conflict. This is true around the world.

There were more Bernie nutters than expected, but my hope is that's because a lot of Democrats fell for the stupid bullshit you righties were peddling. Bernie would have gone nowhere if you rubes hadn't spewed that Hillary sent top secret information to our enemies and ordered the attack on Benghazi.

Really.... in your world, the only reason Bernie had a following is because Republicans wanted to know why Hillary was telling the widows of people killed in Benghazi, that they died over an obscure internet B rated video clip, when she was telling the ambassadors in the middle east, that she knew it had nothing to do with the video, and as a coordinated planned attack? That's why Bernie people came out? Really? That's your brilliant analysis?

I think that bonkers logic right there, is why so many supported Bernie.

Republicans can, so why not?

There you go. You claim to be the better party, and then say "we can be just as crappy as the other party! Why not?!"

This is why I stopped being a Democrat. None of your positions make any sense.

Here you had a chance to show us, your party is better, by saying "no we're not going to over spend until we end up like Greece". Instead you Forest Gump'd the response with "Well dur.... they do it, so why not?"

You fail. Fail sir. Total fail.

 

[TheOldSchool]

It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. She’s unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.” On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party? We’re in an age where people have almost infinite choice when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about everything else. Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be forced on everyone. Don’t like gay marriage in your state? Too bad. Don’t want Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it – and LIKE IT. Democrats are so proud that they believe in “choice” when it comes to abortion - even though the father and the baby have no choice. So why not allow other people to live like they choose?

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police? Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly approved set of liberal values. We’ve actually gotten to the point where Democrats can’t even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints on campus. Whatever happened to being open-minded? Whatever happened to tolerating other viewpoints? Don’t Democrats need to learn how to do that again?

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans? If you’re a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating rape culture. If you’re white, they accuse you of being privileged. If you’re a Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists. If you’re a non-liberal woman, you’re constantly told that women who hold you in contempt and don’t represent your views speak for you. If you’re moderate, for all intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as you’re told. Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack off a liberal college professor. At some point, if you want to represent people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about in a way that they appreciate. Democrats have abandoned this idea and have started explaining to Americans that they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them. That’s not how you make friends and influence people.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme? Democrats from the Clinton years would think today’s Democrats are nuts and Democrats from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before they’d vote for the radicalism that has been embraced by today’s Democrat Party. Gay marriage, men in the women’s restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders – these are radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short period of time. At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved too far, too fast?

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending? Democrats seem to start every discussion with the assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to liberal interest groups and for votes. Meanwhile, we’re almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we can pay Social Security and Medicare. This is an unsustainable situation and, whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two. Can the Democrat Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars? One way or another, we’re going to find out.
6 Questions Democrats Should be Asking Themselves Right Now

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously?

She may have been the most qualified candidate for the Presidency of all time

Anyways, Trump has a potential FBI indictment hanging over his head, and republicans don't care. And his Presidency is going as disastrously as we warned you it would, but republicans don't seem to care about that either.

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party?

We do let people live like they choose. Although, of course, we stop those who are trying to stop people from living as they choose.

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police?

You want to go scream insanities on a college campus? Go ahead. Just don't harass students, and don't hinder their movement going from class to class. You should probably call and ask where you can do this before you go, because those students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be there, and they've asked schools to protect them from unwanted harassment and solicitation.

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans?

Yes. Try not to get too mad when we try to stop you from inflicting magical beliefs on minority groups that think differently than you. If Islam or some other religion ever starts trying to write their religion into the law, I promise we'll fight that too.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme?

There were more Bernie nutters than expected, but my hope is that's because a lot of Democrats fell for the stupid bullshit you righties were peddling. Bernie would have gone nowhere if you rubes hadn't spewed that Hillary sent top secret information to our enemies and ordered the attack on Benghazi.

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending?

Republicans can, so why not?

She may have been the most qualified candidate for the Presidency of all time

Yeah, like Al Capone may have been the most qualified alcohol dealer of all time.

We do let people live like they choose. Although, of course, we stop those who are trying to stop people from living as they choose.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ly-pizzeria-wont-cater-gay-weddings/70813430/

Your statements, don't match your actions.

You want to go scream insanities on a college campus? Go ahead. Just don't harass students, and don't hinder their movement going from class to class. You should probably call and ask where you can do this before you go, because those students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be there, and they've asked schools to protect them from unwanted harassment and solicitation.

Berkeley College Republicans Face Violence, Harassment Following Milo Yiannopoulos Riots

Practice what you preach brother Baptist preacher.

Yes. Try not to get too mad when we try to stop you from inflicting magical beliefs on minority groups that think differently than you. If Islam or some other religion ever starts trying to write their religion into the law, I promise we'll fight that too.

Get ready for Muslim riots. That's where your beliefs lead too. The key to peace and unity in any group of people, is assimilation. Without that, you end up with riots and conflict. This is true around the world.

There were more Bernie nutters than expected, but my hope is that's because a lot of Democrats fell for the stupid bullshit you righties were peddling. Bernie would have gone nowhere if you rubes hadn't spewed that Hillary sent top secret information to our enemies and ordered the attack on Benghazi.

Really.... in your world, the only reason Bernie had a following is because Republicans wanted to know why Hillary was telling the widows of people killed in Benghazi, that they died over an obscure internet B rated video clip, when she was telling the ambassadors in the middle east, that she knew it had nothing to do with the video, and as a coordinated planned attack? That's why Bernie people came out? Really? That's your brilliant analysis?

I think that bonkers logic right there, is why so many supported Bernie.

Republicans can, so why not?

There you go. You claim to be the better party, and then say "we can be just as crappy as the other party! Why not?!"

This is why I stopped being a Democrat. None of your positions make any sense.

Here you had a chance to show us, your party is better, by saying "no we're not going to over spend until we end up like Greece". Instead you Forest Gump'd the response with "Well dur.... they do it, so why not?"

You fail. Fail sir. Total fail.

Your Hillary analogy was terrible.

The Pizzeria was trying to prevent people from living as they like.

The Milo riots? Well... hate breeds hate.

I won't get ready for Muslim riots, because they are not happening.

Bernie... yes. Because the alternative is to believe the left has succumbed to extremists like the now anti-American GOP.

I want to spend on healthcare and domestic programs to help people. Republicans want to spend on increasing our global military empire.

 

[MACAULAY]

Outstanding O.P.

No Reflectors yet....just Deflectors.

The O.P. mentioned that the Leftist were acting like angry Puritans. That, in fact is the true lineage of the Leftist in America.

The Puritans landed on Plymouth Rock in search of Religious Freedom...they promptly declared themselves the Elect of God...and within a couple of generations, they where hanging women in Boston Commons for being Quakers instead of Puritans (Google Mary Dyer). Then later, in Salem, they were burning teenage girls at the stake for acting silly. Imagine that.

They got power under John Adams and passed the Sedition Laws; then used them to put citizens in jail for criticizing the Adams Administration. They had Benjamin Franklin's Grandson in jail for that. Jefferson was disgusted, ran against Adams, beat his ass....and pardoned them all.

Its like this: Being the Elect of God, they necessarily decided they were morally and intellectually superior to us Rustics not from New England and New York. They knew what was best for us, we would never listen, told them to Get Fucked in fact, from which they conceived a love of Control....which they have never abandoned to this day. They no longer know the Lord, but they still love Control.

The Democrats today consist solely of Elitist Control Freaks, and the various Grievance Groups they have assembled, mostly by borrowing 20 trillion from the next generations of Americans. And the whole bunch are morphing into Marxists before our very eyes.

They cannot address your questions. They have no introspection. They don't need it. They are never wrong.

_____________________

 

[Andylusion]

It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. She’s unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.” On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party? We’re in an age where people have almost infinite choice when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about everything else. Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be forced on everyone. Don’t like gay marriage in your state? Too bad. Don’t want Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it – and LIKE IT. Democrats are so proud that they believe in “choice” when it comes to abortion - even though the father and the baby have no choice. So why not allow other people to live like they choose?

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police? Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly approved set of liberal values. We’ve actually gotten to the point where Democrats can’t even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints on campus. Whatever happened to being open-minded? Whatever happened to tolerating other viewpoints? Don’t Democrats need to learn how to do that again?

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans? If you’re a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating rape culture. If you’re white, they accuse you of being privileged. If you’re a Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists. If you’re a non-liberal woman, you’re constantly told that women who hold you in contempt and don’t represent your views speak for you. If you’re moderate, for all intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as you’re told. Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack off a liberal college professor. At some point, if you want to represent people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about in a way that they appreciate. Democrats have abandoned this idea and have started explaining to Americans that they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them. That’s not how you make friends and influence people.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme? Democrats from the Clinton years would think today’s Democrats are nuts and Democrats from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before they’d vote for the radicalism that has been embraced by today’s Democrat Party. Gay marriage, men in the women’s restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders – these are radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short period of time. At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved too far, too fast?

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending? Democrats seem to start every discussion with the assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to liberal interest groups and for votes. Meanwhile, we’re almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we can pay Social Security and Medicare. This is an unsustainable situation and, whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two. Can the Democrat Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars? One way or another, we’re going to find out.
6 Questions Democrats Should be Asking Themselves Right Now

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously?

She may have been the most qualified candidate for the Presidency of all time

Anyways, Trump has a potential FBI indictment hanging over his head, and republicans don't care. And his Presidency is going as disastrously as we warned you it would, but republicans don't seem to care about that either.

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party?

We do let people live like they choose. Although, of course, we stop those who are trying to stop people from living as they choose.

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police?

You want to go scream insanities on a college campus? Go ahead. Just don't harass students, and don't hinder their movement going from class to class. You should probably call and ask where you can do this before you go, because those students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be there, and they've asked schools to protect them from unwanted harassment and solicitation.

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans?

Yes. Try not to get too mad when we try to stop you from inflicting magical beliefs on minority groups that think differently than you. If Islam or some other religion ever starts trying to write their religion into the law, I promise we'll fight that too.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme?

There were more Bernie nutters than expected, but my hope is that's because a lot of Democrats fell for the stupid bullshit you righties were peddling. Bernie would have gone nowhere if you rubes hadn't spewed that Hillary sent top secret information to our enemies and ordered the attack on Benghazi.

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending?

Republicans can, so why not?

She may have been the most qualified candidate for the Presidency of all time

Yeah, like Al Capone may have been the most qualified alcohol dealer of all time.

We do let people live like they choose. Although, of course, we stop those who are trying to stop people from living as they choose.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ly-pizzeria-wont-cater-gay-weddings/70813430/

Your statements, don't match your actions.

You want to go scream insanities on a college campus? Go ahead. Just don't harass students, and don't hinder their movement going from class to class. You should probably call and ask where you can do this before you go, because those students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be there, and they've asked schools to protect them from unwanted harassment and solicitation.

Berkeley College Republicans Face Violence, Harassment Following Milo Yiannopoulos Riots

Practice what you preach brother Baptist preacher.

Yes. Try not to get too mad when we try to stop you from inflicting magical beliefs on minority groups that think differently than you. If Islam or some other religion ever starts trying to write their religion into the law, I promise we'll fight that too.

Get ready for Muslim riots. That's where your beliefs lead too. The key to peace and unity in any group of people, is assimilation. Without that, you end up with riots and conflict. This is true around the world.

There were more Bernie nutters than expected, but my hope is that's because a lot of Democrats fell for the stupid bullshit you righties were peddling. Bernie would have gone nowhere if you rubes hadn't spewed that Hillary sent top secret information to our enemies and ordered the attack on Benghazi.

Really.... in your world, the only reason Bernie had a following is because Republicans wanted to know why Hillary was telling the widows of people killed in Benghazi, that they died over an obscure internet B rated video clip, when she was telling the ambassadors in the middle east, that she knew it had nothing to do with the video, and as a coordinated planned attack? That's why Bernie people came out? Really? That's your brilliant analysis?

I think that bonkers logic right there, is why so many supported Bernie.

Republicans can, so why not?

There you go. You claim to be the better party, and then say "we can be just as crappy as the other party! Why not?!"

This is why I stopped being a Democrat. None of your positions make any sense.

Here you had a chance to show us, your party is better, by saying "no we're not going to over spend until we end up like Greece". Instead you Forest Gump'd the response with "Well dur.... they do it, so why not?"

You fail. Fail sir. Total fail.

Your Hillary analogy was terrible.

The Pizzeria was trying to prevent people from living as they like.

The Milo riots? Well... hate breeds hate.

I won't get ready for Muslim riots, because they are not happening.

Bernie... yes. Because the alternative is to believe the left has succumbed to extremists like the now anti-American GOP.

I want to spend on healthcare and domestic programs to help people. Republicans want to spend on increasing our global military empire.

Really? Are you telling me, that if one single pizza shop in the entire country, denies you a pizza, that your entire life style is prevented? Seriously? You are doomed for life, because one pizza shop denied you a pizza... this is your argument.

Oddly, the other idiots, forcing that pizza shop to close under threat of death.... seem to be the ones stopping them from living their life as they like.

Cultural commentary: I'm beginning to see why everyone calls these people, snow flakes. I can't image any real man with any size balls in his pants, being so fragile and destroyed, because one pizza shop wouldn't sell you a pizza. Where are the parents in this country? Don't they know how to raise kids with a backbone anymore?

I want to spend on healthcare and domestic programs to help people. Republicans want to spend on increasing our global military empire.

Well you just did that, and I'm seeing the world as being a little less safe given the recent new terrorist attacks, and as far as helping people, it must only be people that vote democrat or something, because your "helping people" programs sure screwed me over. I was better off health care wise, before Obama care. I have less coverage now, than I ever did before. Thanks a ton scum bag.

 

[Daysahead]

Let's address #6 spending .

Where is the GOP platform are they shrinking the debt ???

They want to increase defense spending.! At least when the Dems spend, it's to benefit the American people .

Do you think that having the largest and strongest military in the world has benefitted America people in the history of the military?

Would you choose to live in a country that could be wiped out easily by another country with the most nuclear weapons or would you choose to live in the country that had those nuclear weapons and could wipe out any country that gravely threatened mass american lives? Honestly which country would you pick to Bette protect the safety of your country and the people in the event of a war or attack . Which country is better equipped to protect its people than the US ????

 

[Timmy]

Let's address #6 spending .

Where is the GOP platform are they shrinking the debt ???

They want to increase defense spending.! At least when the Dems spend, it's to benefit the American people .

Do you think that having the largest and strongest military in the world has benefitted America people in the history of the military?

Would you choose to live in a country that could be wiped out easily by another country with the most nuclear weapons or would you choose to live in the country that had those nuclear weapons and could wipe out any country that gravely threatened mass american lives? Honestly which country would you pick to Bette protect the safety of your country and the people in the event of a war or attack . Which country is better equipped to protect its people than the US ????

Our military is wasting tax money building and rebuilding highways in Afghanistan . At what point is enough , enough .

 

[Andylusion]

Let's address #6 spending .

Where is the GOP platform are they shrinking the debt ???

They want to increase defense spending.! At least when the Dems spend, it's to benefit the American people .

Do you think that having the largest and strongest military in the world has benefitted America people in the history of the military?

Would you choose to live in a country that could be wiped out easily by another country with the most nuclear weapons or would you choose to live in the country that had those nuclear weapons and could wipe out any country that gravely threatened mass american lives? Honestly which country would you pick to Bette protect the safety of your country and the people in the event of a war or attack . Which country is better equipped to protect its people than the US ????

Our military is wasting tax money building and rebuilding highways in Afghanistan . At what point is enough , enough .

How much money do you think the "Afghan road budget" is?

I'm always amused when people say stuff like this, because you can easily look up this information.

According to the DOD 2017 budget request for Overseas Contingency Operations, the amount of money spent on domestic road construction was...... $5 Million.

Remember, they can pay local non-union workers to do that kind of work. It's not like here in the US. The average cost of a two-lane road in an Urban setting in the US, is $5 Million per mile. Over there, that's how much we're spending on road construction across their entire country.

With all due respect, We can afford to rebuild part of Afghanistan. We blew it up. We can fix it. It isn't going to break our bank.

Social Security is going to break our bank. Medicare is going to break our bank. Medicaid, bailing out Fannie and Freddie, social programs, all that is going to break our bank. Not building a roads in Afghanistan for $5 Million.

 

[westwall]

At this point, it's all about playing perceptions in the media.
Nothing to do with real life policy or solutions.
Whatever can get media attention and publicity,
that's controlling the talking points in the policies.

I'm a Democrat, and I'm sick of this nonsense too!

Me too. The fact that my Party could only come up with hillary, who after decades of "public service" had no actual accomplishments, and who claimed "lots of travel" as a qualification to be SOS, was a disgrace. The Democrat Party has become the very thing that the repubs have been accused of for decades. We need to go back to the founding principles of the Party and get rid of the progressive extremists. Let them form their own party. I'm sick of them ruining mine!

 

[ScienceRocks]

And republicans have become even more extreme against government and common sense spending. Can we work towards a common sense middle ground?

 

[Andylusion]

And republicans have become even more extreme against government and common sense spending. Can we work towards a common sense middle ground?

The Federal Government now owes $19 Trillion dollars in debt.
The total Gross Domestic Product for the entire country... is $16.7 Trillion.

A 100% tax for an entire year, wouldn't collect enough money to pay our debts.

You saying "common sense spending" when we're that far is debt is like saying "common sense poisoning! Can you only meet us in the middle ground of poisoning?"

No. That's the answer. NO.

 

[NYcarbineer]

It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. She’s unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.” On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party? We’re in an age where people have almost infinite choice when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about everything else. Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be forced on everyone. Don’t like gay marriage in your state? Too bad. Don’t want Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it – and LIKE IT. Democrats are so proud that they believe in “choice” when it comes to abortion - even though the father and the baby have no choice. So why not allow other people to live like they choose?

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police? Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly approved set of liberal values. We’ve actually gotten to the point where Democrats can’t even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints on campus. Whatever happened to being open-minded? Whatever happened to tolerating other viewpoints? Don’t Democrats need to learn how to do that again?

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans? If you’re a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating rape culture. If you’re white, they accuse you of being privileged. If you’re a Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists. If you’re a non-liberal woman, you’re constantly told that women who hold you in contempt and don’t represent your views speak for you. If you’re moderate, for all intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as you’re told. Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack off a liberal college professor. At some point, if you want to represent people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about in a way that they appreciate. Democrats have abandoned this idea and have started explaining to Americans that they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them. That’s not how you make friends and influence people.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme? Democrats from the Clinton years would think today’s Democrats are nuts and Democrats from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before they’d vote for the radicalism that has been embraced by today’s Democrat Party. Gay marriage, men in the women’s restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders – these are radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short period of time. At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved too far, too fast?

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending? Democrats seem to start every discussion with the assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to liberal interest groups and for votes. Meanwhile, we’re almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we can pay Social Security and Medicare. This is an unsustainable situation and, whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two. Can the Democrat Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars? One way or another, we’re going to find out.
6 Questions Democrats Should be Asking Themselves Right Now

Is that why Obamacare is gone, abortion has been outlawed, gays have been kicked out of the military, and same sex marriage is no longer legal?