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Fearless

(18,421 posts)
Fri Aug 16, 2013, 10:52 AM Aug 2013

What have liberals done for us?

1. Since 1932, Democratic Presidents have created 73.4 million new jobs, Republicans have created only 34.8 million. Thus, Democrats created more jobs lifting my standard of living. (Source: International Business Times | Bloomberg)

2. Democrats got my mother, sister, and all other women a right to vote by fighting the GOP for 7 years (Source: Woodrow Wilson 1912-1919). Even 100 years later, Democrats fight Republicans as they introduced a law in Wisconsin that would criminalize single mothers. (Source 1 | Forbes)

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13. Lyndon Johnson enacted a massive expansion of Social Security (also created by a democratic, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Medicare so older Americans that have worked hard and spent their lives making this nation great are not left alone in the dark. One day, I will also take advantage of such programs. (Sources: Colorado University | US History | Wikipedia)

14. Democrats created Medicaid under Great Society Programs to help enhance healthcare access for men, women, and children who otherwise couldn’t afford it. The GOP still wants to dissolve it. (Sources: Colorado University | US History | Wikipedia)

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/09/20-ways-in-which-being-liberal-has-made-my-life-better/#ixzz2c8yqJDnQ


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In this time in our country we need to remember more than ever what founded the Democratic Party and what will sustain it, and more importantly, America into the future.

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What have liberals done for us? (Original Post) Fearless Aug 2013 OP
Bring back these 'liberals,' whoever they are! leftstreet Aug 2013 #1
k and r. niyad Aug 2013 #2
Important too to realize that the Democratic Party... polichick Aug 2013 #3
K&R Every step forward since at least the Reformation. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #4
The aqueduct? jmondine Aug 2013 #5
You damn EmoProgs and socialists NuclearDem Aug 2013 #6

niyad

(113,066 posts)
2. k and r.
Fri Aug 16, 2013, 10:57 AM
Aug 2013

there is a woman I see on a fairly regular basis who still wears a romney/ryan button (not to mention the awful huge anti-choice pic she has plastered on her backpack). and she lives in subsidized senior housing. I keep wanting to ask her why she would even consider voting for someone who has absolutely NO interest in her or anyone who is not part of his monied circle. but then, I figure it simply is not worth the effort.

polichick

(37,152 posts)
3. Important too to realize that the Democratic Party...
Fri Aug 16, 2013, 10:59 AM
Aug 2013

no longer represents liberal thinking or policies - and may never again.

We have to ask ourselves, what now?

 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
4. K&R Every step forward since at least the Reformation.
Fri Aug 16, 2013, 11:01 AM
Aug 2013

Your title says liberals and the content talks about Democrats, this is a weak analogy.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
6. You damn EmoProgs and socialists
Fri Aug 16, 2013, 11:28 AM
Aug 2013

Us pragmatic progressives won't have you whiners tearing down our Democratic president Woodrow Wilson!

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