The term has been used by Republicans since 1940 as a slur. The official name of the party is the Democratic Party. The fact that Democrats find that term insulting, should be enough that polite people would not use it.I’ll just call it the DNC and be done with it.
Did somebody delete the wiki article you linked to? It looks like its all covered in a red box?
I’ll just stick to ,as Cardinal Burke says, “The party of death” it is amazing that from slavery to segregation to abortion the Democrat party always seems to come down on the wrong side of History
Key words - polite people.
Just as the Republican Party always seems to come down on the side of the rich and of greed and of disregard for the poor.
Rich, it really isn’t fair to say that the GOP does not care for these people. They just want to work on it in a different way. Welfare is not the way. Helping them prepare themselves to support themselves it. And if you check out the Congress, you will find that there are as many rich and greedy Dems as there are Republicans. That old bromide is getting tiresome.
In you opinion-but it is a fact that the Democrat party supported slavery , segreagtion and today embraces abortion as a core policy of their party.
Let’s see how many CEOs line up on which party…
But that is the only weapon in the Democrat Catholics arsenal when confronted with the Evil their party supports. They must try and draw a moral equivalence between political differences on how to best help the poor and allowing women to kill their children.
Mary, I’m certain that there are individual Republicans who want to help people and who are not greedy, and that there are even some who are not rich. But, who broadbrushes my party can expect the same in return.
In your opinion.
I have yet to see the Catholic Church damn the Democratic Party and praise the GOP to the skies. When and only then will I consider switching sides.
Dah! The President is listed. Look again!You didn’t list the President. Not everyone on this Forum is a rightist or a Republican.
Were slavery and segregation actually core policies of the entire Democratic party or just the Southern Dixiecrats who ended up switching over to the Republican Party in the 1980's?
And what's this "Democrat party" stuff? I thought you were going to refer to them as "The party of death". :DNo problem.Were slavery and segregation actually core policies of the entire Democratic party or just the Southern Dixiecrats who ended up switching over to the Republican Party in the 1980’s?
And what’s this “Democrat party” stuff? I thought you were going to refer to them as "The party of death".
There are those who would have added, “the party of Muslim terrorists, illegal aliens, welfare parasites, Unholywood airheads, sexual perverts, pornographers, and criminals,” as we were described this morning on a conservative website.
There are those who would have added, “the party of Muslim terrorists, illegal aliens, welfare parasites, Unholywood airheads, sexual perverts, pornographers, and criminals,” as we were described this morning on a conservative website.
Lovely, isn’t it? Do you think that such descriptions will move some of us to convert to the GOP?
Correct. Individuals aren’t broadbrushed - institutions and parties and organizations, etc. get that treatment.
I don’t think any of those descriptors apply to you, so…
That thinking is part of the problem. The Church condemns as immoral key parts of the Democrat platform such as the support for abortion rights, homosexual marriage, stem cell research, etc. but does not condemn the platform of the GOP. That alone should be a cause for any Catholic to think twice before pulling the lever for the Democrat party. You have set a standard - the Church damning the Democrat party and praising the GOP to the skies - suitable for you to use as an excuse for voting for the party which in many ways supports the culture of death.
You are not aware of the Church’s stern condemnation on the Democrat Party’s support of abortion? You are not aware of Cardinal Burkes warning that the Democrat Party is becoming the “Party of Death”