Why Christian Americans
( and all other citizens who value morality)
belong in the Democratic Party
Thank God for Liberal Democrats !
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Under the leadership
of President
William J. Clinton,

Clinton
1993 – 2000
the cries of many
needy people were heard :

 

  See many more
Clinton accomplishments at
www.LiberalsLikeChrist
.Org/Clinton

  1. Major tax increase on the wealthy
    to fight tremendous deficits left
    by the 12 Reagan and Bush years.
  2. Family Medical Leave Act
  3. Attempt to extend and/or improve
    health insurance coverage for
    millions of Americans
  4. Creation of Americorps
  5. Restoration of democracy to Haiti
  6. Restoration of peace to Bosnia
  7. Promotion of peace in South Africa
  8. Promotion of peace in Northern Ireland
  9. Promotion of peace in Israel & Palestine
  10. Increase in minimum wage
  11. Promotion of spending on inner-city schools
  12. Opposition to abolition of safety net for the poor
  13. Protection of Social Security & Medicare
  14. Promotion of justice for victims of racism
  15. Protection of children from tobacco industry
  16. Constantly frustrated efforts to
    enact thorough campaign finance
  17. Appointment of many minorities and
    women to major cabinet positions,
    Federal judgeships, etc., etc.,
  18. Resolution of long-standing
    black farmers' discrimination issues
  19. Leadership Role in NATO's campaign
    to stop the "ethnic cleansing" of the
    people of Kosovo.
  20. Major efforts to challenge the
    dangerous proliferation of guns in America

 
       The chart below illustrates one of the principal reasons why the Democrats have lost so many offices to the Republican party, since their party embraced the rights of the few to be treated fairly by the many .
        For the 36 years after the Depression, The Democratic Party completely dominated not only Congress, but most state houses and the Supreme Court.  And the public kept a Democrat in the White House for all but the eight Eisenhower years.  Then came the promotion and passage of the Civil Rights & Voting bills of 1964 & 1968.  And that is when everything changed, almost overnight!

Year :   1 9 6 8   Election 1 9 7 2   Election  
Percentages
for :  		Nixon Wallace Humphrey   Nixon McGovern  
Alabama 14 67 19  74 26  
Arkansas 31 39 30   69 31  
Florida 41 29 31   72 28  
Georgia 30 43 27   75 25  
Louisiana 23 48 28   70 30  
Mississippi 14 63 23   80 20  
N. Carolina 40 31 29   71 29  
S. Carolina 38 32 30   72 28  
Tennessee 38 34 28   69 31  
Texas 40 19 41   67 33  
Virginia 44 24 33   69 31  
Averages: 32 % 39 % 29 %   72 % 28 %  
The profile
of voters in the Deep South :		 The Conservative 71% split their votes between Nixon and Wallace. The Liberal 29% voted for the Liberal Democrat. The same Conservative 72% went for Republican Nixon. The same Liberal 28% voted for the Liberal Democrat.
        Table designed by Ray Dubuque, using data extracted from the 1976 edition of "The Almanac of American Politics" ( one of the most respected reference books on the subject.)
The Bottom Line:
        The South went from being solidly Democratic before the promotion and passage of the Civil Rights bills of '64 & '65 to voting 7 to 3 against the National Democratic Party thereafter.   And the vote for George Wallace shows exactly who moved from the pre-civil rights Democratic Party  to the post-civil rights Republican Party  and why.
        Although the effect was less dramatic in other parts of the country, it was one of the most important factors in the country going in a few short years from almost complete Democratic control of the U.S. Congress, many state legislatures, and the governorships of most states, to almost complete Republican control of most of those bodies, including some of the most Democratic of our states..  And since 1968,  only Republicans and Democratic governors from the Deep South have won the presidency.
click here for
the answer to the   G.O.P.'s  big  lie
that "More Republicans" than "Democrats"
voted in favor of the historic 1964 Civil Rights Bill,
(although it's nice to see that some Republicans now envy
the reputation Democrats have for being the Liberal party).
Why those hurt most by Republican policies vote REPUBLICAN.

        Although the Democratic Party has lost some of its past courage and idealism, although it has been moved by forces such as the "Democratic Leadership Conference" to embrace "middle class" issues, rather than the issues of the poor, the unemployed and the "working class", the Democratic Party is still the party most likely to espouse the positions recommended by the Bible, such as promoting fairer wages and better working conditions for workers, promoting the earned income tax credit for workers, promoting family leave, protecting the environment upon which all of us depend, promoting public education, protecting racial, religious and other minorities, opposing excessive reliance on military weaponry, controlling harmful industries such as the tobacco and gun industries, etc., etc.

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        Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the most beloved mayors to ever govern New York city.  He governed the country's largest city in much the same way as F.D.R. was governing the country, in the early 30's.  He once said:  

        "This country is blessed with a rich supply of coal.  It is not the invention of any one man.  It is God's gift to (all) the people of America.  It requires human labor to dig the coal, bring it back from the bowels of the earth so it may be used for the benefit of mankind . . .  The government should (take) such actions as eventually will put the government in possession of the gift of God that surely was intended to be used for the benefit of all American people."

        So spoke one of the best loved of all Republicans in the 20th century!
A Liberal Democrat couldn't have said it better.

        Not being one to give up without trying, however, Gov. Mario Cuomo once said, "The purpose of government is to make love real in a sinful world."

        "Thus it is manifest that the best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class, and that those states are likely to be well administered in which the middle class is larger and stronger – if possible than both other classes."
        – Aristotle, Politics, Book IV
For a very Biblical perspective, see
the parable of "the Stollen Inheritance"

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Thank God for Liberal Democrats !
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