Reply #14: Whatever. My personal priority issues have been totally neglected in recent years. [View All]

[El Pinko]

"Does the Democratic party "kow-tow" to YOUR rights when they refuse to allow the Repukes to institutionalize Christianity?"

Um, no, the slight majority of dems that stands up for separation of church and state do so because it is fundamental to the constitution.

" Do they "kow-tow" to the people who belong to unions when they support organized labor?"

The democrats support labor? That's news to me. Maybe compared to the GOP who are dead-set on destroying labor as a political force. The dems seem ambivalent to labor at best...

" Is it only the majority that deserves to have its rights respected and honored today?"

That's not my point. Economic issues are life-and-death issues. People go hungry and end up on the street or dead because of them. I view it as a crisis situation when those needs are not met, and they're not.



What more do you want from the democratic party? It has come a long way from when I first started voting, and I don't think it does take the groups you named for granted. If anything, it blows off working people more than anyone else. It soft-soaps them and then when they're in power, they give us crap like UNPAID family leave. But I know for a fact that the GOP would give us MUCH MUCH worse, so I vote for the dems - the status-quo party.


At least gays, minorities and women have enjoyed progress in recent years, unlike the bottom 40 or 50% of wage-earners.


As gays and minorites have made huge strides toward equality in the last 20 years, working people have been pummeled - their incomes decimated and handed over to the wealthy. Labor union membership has plummeted and good jobs sent overseas - and the democrats have done fuck all about it, but you don't see me threatening to vote GOP.


No constituency should be "taken for granted" by a political party, but that's the breaks. It happens. You think the GOP will do ANYTHING for minorities, gays or women? Maybe the ones with a shitload of money. The rest can fuck off as far as the GOP is concerned.