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This is the Democratic party that I know and love.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/this-is-democratic-party-that-i-know.htmlDemocrats value humanity. I think we got separated, somehow, from being known as the party of the working class because we value the equality of each person's human experience. Where did the distinction develop that this party is too focused on its far left agenda for LGBTQ rights, or abortion rights, or on illegal immigration than it is on minority rights or the working class? I believe our politics have been consistent.
The Democratic party believes that government has an obligation to protect individual rights, but also that it should be involved in addressing and resolving issues faced by the American people, particularly as a defender of those who are less privileged. When Democrats talk about promoting the public welfare, they mean giving government, as the only advocate for the people, a higher level of oversight over those things that have a direct impact on our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Government oversight levels the playing field and enforces standards on which people can depend in order to create their own opportunities, based on their own hard work.
The Constitution defines and guarantees basic human rights. That requires a level of oversight in areas such as money and finance, health care, natural resource management, manufacturing and education. The bottom line is that Democratic party politics generally define themselves by the bottom line of government doing what is necessary for the benefit of all the people, not just a privileged few, based on their wealth, or their race, or their level of education.
Democrats are not driven by ideology. We are driven by necessity. For example, we see the value of education, not just in providing society with an educated electorate, but in enhancing the opportunities of all people, so the government has taken the responsibility for providing a system of public education that everyone can access. And we push for more than just maintenance of the system, we push for improvement of it, we believe educators, not politicians, should be the leaders of the improvement, and we work to increase the accessibility of students to the higher levels of it.
Republicans are afraid of an educated society.
The Democratic party believes that government has an obligation to protect individual rights, but also that it should be involved in addressing and resolving issues faced by the American people, particularly as a defender of those who are less privileged. When Democrats talk about promoting the public welfare, they mean giving government, as the only advocate for the people, a higher level of oversight over those things that have a direct impact on our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Government oversight levels the playing field and enforces standards on which people can depend in order to create their own opportunities, based on their own hard work.
The Constitution defines and guarantees basic human rights. That requires a level of oversight in areas such as money and finance, health care, natural resource management, manufacturing and education. The bottom line is that Democratic party politics generally define themselves by the bottom line of government doing what is necessary for the benefit of all the people, not just a privileged few, based on their wealth, or their race, or their level of education.
Democrats are not driven by ideology. We are driven by necessity. For example, we see the value of education, not just in providing society with an educated electorate, but in enhancing the opportunities of all people, so the government has taken the responsibility for providing a system of public education that everyone can access. And we push for more than just maintenance of the system, we push for improvement of it, we believe educators, not politicians, should be the leaders of the improvement, and we work to increase the accessibility of students to the higher levels of it.
Republicans are afraid of an educated society.