Help, need education

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Registered: 08-31-2004
Help, need education
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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 4:03am
Can anyone give me a link to a Democrat primer? Renee kindly provided one for Republicanism, and I would like to see exactly what the Democrats are all about.

In case anyone missed the flag by my name, I'm a Brit and am just trying to figure out the different 'camps'.

Thank you

baby siggy

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Registered: 07-12-2001
Fri, 09-03-2004 - 7:23pm
{{{shudder}}} You've just listed almost every single reason I'm almost *ashamed* to admit I'm a Democrat.

Bev

girl in chair
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Registered: 06-17-2004
Fri, 09-03-2004 - 8:08pm

I think she's looking for Democrat political philosophy, not policy positions or issues.


I'd love to see that myself. Much of what I was taught the Democrat Party was based on is either irrelevant today, or has been repudiated by Democrats themselves.

Renee ~~~

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Sat, 09-04-2004 - 1:26pm

"In a lucid and objective new book called The Right Nation (Allen Lane, £14.99), two English authors, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, set out how conservatism has gradually undermined the claim of American liberals, established by Roosevelt's New Deal, to be able to solve the nation's problems.


Emphasising values more than class, it has taken ideas seriously, and also the organisation required to promote those ideas. It is made up of potentially opposed groups - the extremes varying from strict Puritans who believe that the divine "Rapture" is about to bring the world to an end to libertarians who want no government at all.


But it can bring together many, even most, Americans round what the authors call "four of the most basic American passions - for business, property, choice and, most especially, national security". Ronald Reagan forged this unity in the Cold War. Now George W Bush has done it in the war against terrorism."


http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/09/04/do0403.xml

Renee ~~~

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