People Have More Faith in Dems to Get Things Done

A majority of the public believes the Democratic Party could do a better job than the GOP at dealing with a number of domestic issues, according to a new Pew Research report.

One exception: The GOP still holds a sizable advantage in perceived ability to deal with a terrorist threat at home, otherwise opinion now leans in favor of the left.

Why it matters: These views reflect significant changes from past years, and show strong gains for the Dems on issues that President Trump has focused his efforts on during his first 100 days, meaning he has to do a better job of convincing the public that the GOP can handle these issues.

Democratic advantage over GOP:

Immigration, +11
Foreign policy decisions, + 13
Health care, +19
Education policy, +16
Environment, +31
Abortion, +20
Gov't spending, +8
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"Getting things Done".
As far as melon scratchers go that's a honeydew.

I think the term getting things done may be in most cases the equivilant of fucking things up.
So I'm not sure its really a good thing.
 
Makes sense.
Not to denigrate all things conservative, but liberals are primarily responsible for most of the landmark societal progress we've made as a nation from its inception.
End of slavery. End of ***** labor. Women's suffrage. Civil Rights Acts, etc.
 
And we all know how accurate polls are.
 
If working hard to keep every friggin' ******* ***** here in the USA and organizing protests (riots / looting get togethers) is getting things done ... then yeah, Dems are getting things done.
 
Makes sense.
Not to denigrate all things conservative, but liberals are primarily responsible for most of the landmark societal progress we've made as a nation from its inception.
End of slavery. End of ***** labor. Women's suffrage. Civil Rights Acts, etc.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Abraham Lincoln pushed for and made the 13th amendment part of the Republican party platform in 1864.

80 percent of GOP house members supported the Civil Rights Act and 82 percent of GOP senators supported it.

63 and 69 percent of Democrats supported it respectively.

Yet Democrats were responsible for it.

Holy ****!
 
Makes sense.
Not to denigrate all things conservative, but liberals are primarily responsible for most of the landmark societal progress we've made as a nation from its inception.
End of slavery. End of ***** labor. Women's suffrage. Civil Rights Acts, etc.

How did your keyboard not burst into flames when you typed this horseshit?
 
Notice he said liberal vs conservative.

Cant wait to see his list of liberal Republicans as opposed to his list of knuckle dragging conservative Democrats that threw a wrench into it.
 
Makes sense.
Not to denigrate all things conservative, but liberals are primarily responsible for most of the landmark societal progress we've made as a nation from its inception.
End of slavery. End of ***** labor. Women's suffrage. Civil Rights Acts, etc.

Good point. People always bring up how Democrats in the 60s opposed civil rights but it's important to remember that they were conservatives. We often mix up party affiliation with political ideology. The two aren't the same. Just because you're liberal doesn't mean you're a Democrat. Just because you're conservative doesn't mean you're a Republican. I usually say liberal or conservative rathe than Democrat or Republican.
 
Good point. People always bring up how Democrats in the 60s opposed civil rights but it's important to remember that they were conservatives. We often mix up party affiliation with political ideology. The two aren't the same. Just because you're liberal doesn't mean you're a Democrat. Just because you're conservative doesn't mean you're a Republican

Not by the Democrat Party Platform of 1964 they weren't.

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Not by the Democrat Party Platform of 1964 they weren't.

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Now go and plagiarize something or whatever it is that you do.

1964 was the year they realised those uppity negroes had become a huge voter *****.
So they promised them equal rights so they can acheive prosporous lives but at the same time put them all on welfare.
Basically reopening the plantation. 50 years later some Blacks have become aware of this but most still haven't caught on.
And the Obama years set them back decades.
 
Richard Nixon wasn't a fucking liberal when he ran in 1960 nor was Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.one of a handful to do so.


The truth is that the Democrat party has a darker history of racism than the GOP ever has.
 
Are you fucking kidding me?

Abraham Lincoln pushed for and made the 13th amendment part of the Republican party platform in 1864.

You'll note I stated them as "liberal" achievements. As you're no doubt aware Abraham Lincoln and his party were definitely the liberals of that era. Had to fight tooth and nail (including a war that ****** 600,000 americans) with conservatives to achieve that end.
Than after his death (at the hands of a conservative patriot) his philosophical descendants had to fight another 100 years against all manner of conservative attempts to infringe and ******* that right.

80 percent of GOP house members supported the Civil Rights Act and 82 percent of GOP senators supported it.
63 and 69 percent of Democrats supported it respectively.


What percentage of non southern (i.e. hardcore conservative) democrats supported it?

Holy ****!

Indeed. Conservatism's record when it comes to these issues is notably *****.
 
The truth is that the Democrat party has a darker history of racism than the GOP ever has.

Party schmarty lol Thankfully most of us have become aware of this silly, convoluted semantical game conservatives have adopted to try (rather pathetically actually) to shift responsibility away from their philosophical brethren.
The truth is that the darkest history of rascim in America belongs to conservatism, and to deny (or otherwise try to mask) that fact is absurd. Period.
 
Party schmarty lol Thankfully most of us have become aware of this silly, convoluted semantical game conservatives have adopted to try (rather pathetically actually) to shift responsibility away from their philosophical brethren.
The truth is that the darkest history of rascim in America belongs to conservatism, and to deny (or otherwise try to mask) that fact is absurd. Period.

Au contraire.

The Democrat party is still the party of racism. It is your job to atone for your past not conservatives' job to do it for you.
Just like the shift the democrat party made when it decided that they would cater to the liberal black monolithic voting block and to disregard its white base there has been a new shift.

The latest incarnation goes from big government, tax and spend and failed social programs like The Great Society to a shift to identity politics.

There is not a greater demonstration of racism than for a black man to shoot another black man in the face on a live broadcast and not a peep from the group who claim Black lives matter the most
It seems that Black lives only matter if they fall victim to whites or even better a white cop.

The Democrat party owns the racism of shaming white culture and ironically have taken to advocating segregation in college campuses and elsewhere where liberal think is prevalent.


The racist democrat party ( or should I say liberal democratic socialist party?) Threw in the towel on the white vote during the last election and much like the 60's decided they could win with a coalition of gays, Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other minorities with liberal whites being their buffer.

Since its inception the Democrat party has been steeped in racism. It just depends on which class of people it serves their interest to **** at that given time.

Own it. You've earned it.

As for Lincoln..

Not so fast...

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Oh man what a crock. Liberals don't have a RACIST PAST to atone for.
That's all on your philosophical brethren. Own it indeed, because they have certainly earned it for you.
It doesn't make you individually a bad person. You're most likely an exception. But again, to contend that racism hasn't found its wellspring in conservatism is absurd.

I'm not ashamed of white culture :dunno: Nor are any of the other libtards I know. This seems for the most part, at least as I understand the assignation, to be a figment of conservative imagination.
As a white person I don't feel any personal shame or responsibility for racism, Jim Crow etc; but I do try to keep it in historical perspective when I look at the evolution of where we've been as a nation/society and where we are now.

I credit you for being experienced, respectful and visionary enough to not stereotype that "monolithic" black voting block as just a bunch of shiftless low lives looking for "freebies"...that in fact their solidarity has a tremendous amount to do with generations of blacks having been systematically treated like subhumans, inferiors and second class citizens...by social conservatives. Pretty hard to win trust when you've got a history that's that ugly.

And if I wished to take the time (which I don't at present) I could shoot some gaping holes in that opinion piece you posted. Maybe another time, since I do greatly enjoy talking about Lincoln.
 
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