The Democratic party was founded when 13 of the British colonies on the North American continent severed their ties with England and formed their own unified democratic government with a constitution that guaranteed democracy and protected the political, social, and economic rights (civil rights) of it's citizens. The Democratic party represents the gains of democracy, freedom, and rights from the Revolution and seeks to constantly expand human freedoms and protections.
The Republican party seeks to protect and restore the political culture from Europe as of the beginning of the American revolution, and generally opposes any new freedoms, seeks to reverse the freedoms and rights gained in the revolution, and devises ways to keep the government from providing the protections guaranteed by the constitution, especially those of an economic nature. It might be said that the Republican party originated with the beginnings of the Roman Empire that created the culture of Europe that existed before 1775.
The vast majority of the population of Europe in 1775 was slaves, known as 'serfs' or 'peasants' or 'commoners' or 'the servant class or race'. These slaves were held in their servile status through harshly imposed poverty, ignorance, and terror. These slaves worked for the wealth of the 'upper class' (AKA 'master race') Aristocracy that constituted a totalitarian dictatorship (one man rule). "Government" was operated as a profit making business..
Synonyms
democrats
Liberals
Progressives
Positions on issues:
Democracy:
Full support for the right of mankind to choose his representation in government and collectively choose the laws and personal customs to be followed in everyday life..
Wealth:
That every man has a right to a fair share of the wealth of the society, and his right to that share should be promoted and protected.
Rights:
That mankind has all rights except where restrictions are imposed by the government (concensus of the electorate) in it's duty to protect it's citizens from one another and from tyranny in general.
Government protections:
That government should take whatever measures are necessary for protection of it's citizens political, social, and economic rights, with emphasis places on 'economic' because economic rights and justice is the hardest to protect within the capitalist system. The capitalist system must be regulated for the economic protection of wage earners, and the right of labor to organize for it's protection and well being should be guaranteed.
Education:
The Democrats know that the way to a better and more prosperous future is through better education. They also know about the enforced ignorance that was once used to control slaves. So they see universal education as a key to keeping the human race free from tyranny and free from slavery. So they constantly seek better ways to provide the highest education practical for all Americans. That this is true is obvious from the position of the USA in the world today. Our people have the best education in the world, and we have become the richest and most powerful nation in the world. Education is a powerful defense against the republicans schemes to re-create human slavery in our society.
Taxes
Democratic government was devised as a defense, or protection, against the tyrannies that were common in European culture at the time of the American revolution. These protections are outlined in the American Constitution, and in the laws and benefits programs that have been enacted since the birth of our nation. These protections are many, and some are costly, so it is essential that our government always have adequate means to pay for these protections. They are the building blocks in our wall against return to human slavery and totalitarisn tyranny, and the loss of any of them signals that the opponents of our revolution are gaining the upper hand.
The "trickle down" lie
The truth is that the "trickle" of wealth is from the toils of wage earners to the coffers of the wealthy. Wealth does not "trickle down", it tricles up from the sweat or toils of the working man. No man has ever gotten wealthy without others working to create that wealth for him.
Abortion
The extremly personal decision to bring another "person" into existence should be the choice of the parent, not any politial party or government. However, when the new person is born, democrat's philosophy demands that government get invooved in guaranteeing the new person's survival until their natural death. Programs such as welfare, unemployment compensation, disability pensions, workers compensation, social security, medicare, and many others are enacted for this purpose, preventing personal disasters from such as starvation, death from inadequate medical care, and slavery that could be forced on the truly downrodden and unfortunate by greedy profit seekers.
Synonyms:
republicans
Conservatives
Theocrats
Positions on issues
Democracy:
Generally unfavorable, their concept of government being based on the 'infallability' doctrine of religion where no such thing as choice, options, rights, debate, diversity, compromise, or diplomacy has a 'right' to exist.
Wealth:
That all wealth should be allowed to accrue to the strongest, smartest, and the most powerful with no protections for the weak and unfortunate having any share of the wealth of the society.
Rights:
That no rights exist except those expressly given by the government or authority.
Government protections:
That the function of government is control, not protection, and wherever civil rights clash with their 'infallability' doctrine, the 'civil right' has no right to exist. Economic rights should be a function of an unfettered capitalist system with no protection whatsoever for the economic fortunes of wage earners. The labor forces should not be allowed to organize for their own well being. The right wing works constantly to repeal all of the protections against tyranny that have been established by the government, such things as the minimum wage laws, Social Security, Fair Labor Standards, etc. They also work constantly to deny the government the means to provide these protections by depriving the government of the tax monies that is necessary to pay for the cost of these protections. They lie to the public constantly about the purpose and results of these protections.
Education:
Enforced ignorance was once am important factor in the control of human slavery. The republicans realize that if slavery is to ever be re-created and successful as a profit maker for their elite, they must return to this enforced ignorance scam, so they oppose all efforts to increase universal education and work constantly to damage our free public educaiton system in every way possible. They also know that the more educated a person becomes the less likely he is to support their "conservative' policies, so they see education as a major danger to their philosophies. They also know that any promises they make for a better life under their policies are outright lies, and it is very difficult to make educated people believe them.
Taxes
The republicans know well of the cost of maintaining democracy and human freedom and so they constantly devise schemes and conspiracies to deprive our government of the means to provide the protections against tyranny that it was created to do. To this end they have created a 'living lie' that taxes are the government's way to rob it's citizens. Their goal is to kill all of the benefits programs that provides a measure of prosperity to all of our citizens, leaving them in dire economic straits where it might be attractive to volunteer to work for food. They especially oppose all financial and economic aid to those already in poverty who might most easily be persuaded that slavery was in their best interest. Their goal is to cause the demise of government benefits programs by cutting off all the funds necessary to execute these programs. If it was not for republican opposition, there would be no need for 'charity' of any kind in our society.
The "trickle down" lie
Republicans want us to believe that the economic well being of the public is a direct product of the well being of the very wealthy, that no economic advances for the common man can occur until after economic advances (huge profits) have been realized by the wealthy, after which some small portion of that wealth will be allowed to "trickle down" to the common man. Their philosophy denys the common man the right to share wealth or to participate in the acquisition of profits that leads to wealth.
Abortion
Republicans demands that every sexual encounter produce a fetus and strives to force the government to guarantee the survival of each fetus. However, they demand that government guarantees of survival end at birth, leaving the newborn 'person' to survive as best as possible without any aid of any kind from any collective self help organization, especially from the government. Since the huge majority of newborns become wage earners (those who toil to produce the wealth of the wealthy) and whenever a surplus supply of these laborers are produced, the cost of labor goes down and profits go up. In the past, the poorest of these laborers have tended to become slaves.
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