Why the Democrats Are Right

[Rebound]

[Legato]

Right about what? The Dems are left of everything.

[Deluge]

3 hours ago, Rebound said:

Democrats are never right - they're just different shades of wrong. 

[User]

The Democrats were fully onboard with blocking this stuff for most of that time too. So... ?

 

 

[Hodad]

He really is the best. It's too bad he has to wait his turn. 

And you're right. The drive to lift people up and empower them will always be more inspiring than the drive to oppress.

Conservative America always seems to think that if they can keep just one more group under the boot as second (or third) class citizens that somehow the oppressors shitty lives will somehow be better. 

If only black children can't learn alongside white children, our problems will be solved. If only blacks can't marry whites. If only men can marry men or women can't marry women. As long as they can't raise children. As long as we can prevent someone else from using a pronoun...

On and on. If they spent even a quarter of their energy trying to improve their own lives instead of shitting on someone else, then the world would be a radically different--and better--place. 

[Rebound]

2 hours ago, User said:

The Democrats were fully onboard with blocking this stuff for most of that time too. So... ?

 

 

Democrats lead the civil rights movement and Democrats definitely lead the gay rights and women’s rights movements. Republicans stood in the way and opposed all of those things. Republican Strom Thurmond briefly left the Republican Party to run for President in the Segregationist Party, before he went back to the Republican Party. 

SOUTHERN Democrats were segregationist before the 1960’s, when the Civil Rights movement turned them away from the Democrats and to the GOP. Richard Nixon happy took the Southerners into the Republican Party, who previously refused to be Republicans because Abe Lincoln had been a Republican.