What has the democratic party done for you?

From Dem presidents to congress to local officials - what have the dems done that have impacted your life?

Let's get a good list brewing of how the dems have helped the people over the years - let's get them something they can relate to and the reasons why voting Democrat can serve their best interest.

We may not be the perfect party; as one can see here on a variety of threads where we discuss what we can do better - but let us use this thread to show what we have done well and how we have made the lives of people better. And perhaps how too we want to keep doing that for them.

Get the list, mail it out, and let's open the eyes and minds of the people.

to share my thoughts and views with like minded people.

I guess I'm part of that percenctage of Americans that expects to receive Social Security checks when I retire. Despite what some corporate news reports and polls may indicate, I think we are in the majority.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=195938&mesg_id=195939

My other thread on math and voting. Real interesting so far - a snippet:

We all appreciate the critical nature of this lost information. For proof, just recall almost any New Hampshire Presidential Primary where the news media describes how some candidate siphons votes away from another one with similar views. The candidates react with cries of ``Don't waste your vote, vote for me!" So, as captured by Borda's example, it could be that when most voters like several closely contending candidates, none wins because of how the voters split the vote!

Even worse, suppose after nine serious candidates are in the New Hampshire primary a radical, R, joins the election chase on, say, the ``Return to the Snowshoe" platform. Suppose R is so repulsive that almost 90% of the voters have R bottom-ranked. But if the views of the respectable candidates are sufficiently close to split the vote, R could win with only slightly over 10% of the vote coming from the lunatic fringe, the uninformed, or voters mistaking R for someone else (as once happened in Illinois). R, a candidate almost universally despised, could win! This is the problem that Borda worried about.

While this Snowshoe example is extreme, it suggests that we might find elections exhibiting Borda's phenomenon when the views of top-ranked candidates represent a small portion of the electorate. By checking, we discover that again Roemer and certain other candidates in the 1995 Louisiana gubernatorial election may have been victimized by the plurality vote. While the final two candidates did not suffer from scandal, it is difficult to claim that both represented the views of a vast number of voters. Similarly, recent Russian elections provide a rich source of examples.

Which I have never had occasion to use, but it just seems to be an act that was done just FOR THE PEOPLE. One of the few that were done FOR the people, and not TO the people.

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Democrats like FDR and Truman created the current middle class. Many yuppie/baby boomer republicans have what they do because their parents/grandparents benefited from things like the GI bill and Social Security. If conservatives had their way, stupid southerner freeper republicans would never have made it to college....much less have indoor plumbing & electricity.

But, the democrats biggest accomplishment may have been what they've prevented...FASCISM! The is a reason the blue states are also the highest income states = A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS! Don't even get me started about equal opportunity for all, women's rights, Miranda rights, etc, etc.

I LOVE the Democratic Party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I said FDR & Truman CREATED the current middle class. JFK, LBJ and Clinton continued and expanded the middle class with their tax and social policies.

Bush and his cronies are destroying the middle class. Why do you think every year that Bush has been president, middle class incomes have gone down (and credit card dept risen, net worth declined), while the wealthy have gotten exponentially wealthier?

FYI - one thing free market types never tell you is that human beings are simply a resource - just like trees or coal. Capitalism's goal is to beat down the cost of this human captial as low as possible - work you as long & hard as possible - and then toss you away like scrap metal when they are done with you.

You think Bush's brand of fratboy crony capitalism is good for you? It's a big lie - why do you think average incomes are highest in blue states?

Reg: They've taxed us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, not just from us, from our fathers and from our fathers' fathers.

Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.

Reg: Yes.

Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.

Reg: All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return? (he pauses smugly)

Xerxes: Social Security?

Reg: What?

Xerxes: Social Security.

Reg: Oh yeah, yeah they gave us that. Yeah. That's true.

Masked Commando: And Civil Rights!

Stan: Oh yes ... Civil Rights, Reg, you remember what the city used to be like.

Reg: All right, I'll grant you that the Social Security and Civil Rights are two things that the Democrats have done ...

Matthias: And Public Works ...

Reg: (sharply) Well yes obviously Public Works... the roads go without saying. But apart from the Social Security, the Civil Rights and Public Works ...

Another Masked Commando: Electrification ...

Other Masked Voices: Medicare ... Education ... Health

Reg: Yes ... all right, fair enough ...

Commando Nearer The Front: And repealing prohibition ...

General Audience: Oh yes! True!

Francis: Yeah. That's something we'd really miss if the Democrats left, Reg.

Masked Commando At Back: Clean environment!

Stan: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now.

Francis: Yes, they certainly know how to keep order ... (general nodding) ... let's face it, they're the only ones who could in a place like this. (more general murmurs of agreement)

Reg: All right ... all right ... but apart from Social Security and Civil Rights and education and electrification and health care and roads and a clean environment and public order ... what have the Democrats done for us?

Xerxes: Brought peace!

Reg: (very angry, he's not having a good meeting at all) What!? Oh ... (scornfully) Peace, yes ... shut up!

So far.

and most even support gay benefits and civil union if not marriage itself. Thanks y'all!