The difference between Democrats and Republicans

[EstimatedProphet]

Democrats join the Democratic party because they see it as the lesser of two evils.
Republicans join the Republican party because they see it as the greater of two evils.

[TheFriedPiper]

1. I see it as:

Republicans think America is too weak to defeat terrorists without giving up what makes America great: its freedom.

Democrats don't.

[EstimatedProphet]

7. See what I'm getting at is:

Democrats are motivated by a desire to do good.
Republicans are motivated by a desire to do evil.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Democrats care about people

Republicans only care about money and property.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. and 'power'

even if it's illusionary.

[loves_dulcinea]

9. amen

[EFerrari]

4. Republicans are exclusive, greedy and provincial. They are a herd

of me-firsters. Democrats, or the ones I grew up around, are inclusive, give easily and are intellectually curious.

This isn't quite right. And I make no statements about the DLC. :P

[MissWaverly]

5. I see the Republican Party as a continuation of Cold War thinking

They wanted to drum up War on Terror to replace the Cold War so it could be business as usual
lot of pork, mega defense contracts, emphasis on defense and not social programs. Why spend
money on education, when all they need is 6 weeks of basic training. The problem is that this
is a caricature of what America is. America is not a war machine but a democracy. The rule of
the dems which I remember was much more for the benefit of society as a whole and our Dem presidents carried out strong national defense and foreign diplomacy. This idea of the dems as weenies was started by the Republicans to get more power. It is not true and has never been true.
FDR was our commander in chief in WWII and we won that battle. We won with our freedom intact
and our constitution still the law of the land.

Here is FDR on 4 freedoms:

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/workbook/ralprs36b.htm
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to Congress January 6, 1941

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want -- which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-- anywhere in the world.

[EFerrari]

6. The wastefulness of Republicans is breathtaking. How much has it

cost to gin up our fear and to stage this fake war with so much real death and destruction so that Halliburton can overcharge us for bad food and water.

It's enough to make you cry and never stop.

[Double T]

8. Republicans are driven by EXTREME GREED FOR AN ELITE FEW AND..........

FASCIST DICTATOR STYLE POWER; Democrats are driven by PROSPERITY FOR ALL AND CAUSES FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF ALL HUMANITY.

[MissWaverly]

10. You are right

dems see us as peace brokers, Pukes want war and plenty of it and maybe nukes too.