why are democrat so liberal?
400154
We tend to be progressive in thought and action, Repuglicans are set in their ways and unyielding. I think the main difference is how the economy is run, Repuglicans believe in supply side economics and  the democrats believe in consumer based economics. Taking the last two presidents who had the strongest economy. Supply side economics never has worked. There is always a recession when it is tried. As a matter of fact, Herbert Hoover threw the nation into a depression when he tried it.
149947
First, it "naive".  Second, as for your argument, it's actually quite the opposite.  Democrats are the ones who do nothing but mislead people, scare people, and spew hatred.  One of these days, when you grow up and open your mind, you'll realize that.
928393
Oh, I'm a liberal, and I admit it. Here's the thing; the ones who switched from voting Republican in 2004 to voting Democratic in 2006 view themselves as independents.
600713
Liberal.  Trial lawyers love Democrats, as they are anti-big business and tend to pass laws that give lawyers a greater chance to sue and make money.
1178387
Good question!  I'm not sure, but it would seem that liberals are taking over the Democratic party and making it too far left for most conservative people that are still Democrats and many Republicans have taken a far right stance because it's becoming predominantly conservative and moral.  It's not a good reflection of either party too far either way and it's sad.
933125
Cause democrats are GAY!
928363
It is important to vote Democrat.
685842
Because most Democrats cannot wait for America to join the EU with it's liberal governmental practices. They don't give a care about the environment or else they all would be driving Hybrids and living in Solar Assisted homes. They wish to see "the rest" of the world be in greater control of our energy policy (Kyoto Accord - bless Bush for keeping us OUT) our economic policy and our court system. Why all the demonstrations over global warming rather than direct action like night random attacks of tree and shrubbery plantings? Democrats only want to think for us because we cannot think for ourselves. We cannot spend for ourselves so they want to tax our dollars from us and spend them on what they think we need. Hillary would even take the choice of physician from us, yet let 14 year old girls kill unborn children. They have the perfect vision of a completely controlled people.
684071
I'll first say that I don't designate myself as a Democrat or Republican, although I do tend to take the side of the Democrats more often.\n\nThe reason, though, that Democrats can't win the White House is that they don't have a solid stance on ANYTHING.  They simply take what the conservatives say (which is always swayed to the right) and try to find a middle ground or happy medium...rather than stating firmly what they believe in.  Democrats are so scared to lose that small part of the conservative vote that they fail to uphold solid beliefs on any topic.\n\nIf I were a Democrat running in the next election, there are two major things I would focus on:\n\n1) The failures of the Republican administration over the past 8 years.\n2) The environment and global warming.\n\nThese are two things that SHOULD be the goals of the liberals.....both correcting the mistakes of the conservatives (war, hurricane relief, taxes, health care) and concentrating on easing global warming by moving to alternative fuels, thus lowering gas costs, etc.  In addition, regarding issues brought forth in the last election like abortion, stem cell research, and gay rights.....TAKE A STAND!!!!  The "flip-flopper" term was thrown around because there's no solid opinion of the party as a whole.  It's always a politician's answer that never resolves the initial question.\n\nSo that's all.  Hope that made sense.  And by the way...making up your mind before hearing the issue makes you a complete moron.  Just because you're the "member of a party" does NOT mean you have to agree with everything the party says.  Partisan politics are for the mindless.
1162529
I am a Christian Democrat and I am against abortion,same sex marriages and such. I don't know why liberals and democrats think that way. You can be both.
1155044
1. Neocons... hehe (thought I'd throw my own version of name calling in) use name calling as a method of 'winning'. That's all in the own head btw.\n\n2. I've watched some detailed research on this subject on CSpan and it was actually a goal of the Republican party to have a campaign designed specifically to make the word 'liberal' derogatory. Their goal was to have the words liberal and democrat to mean the same when someone is talking about each party.\n\nTheir strategy worked btw. Today even us democrats use the word liberal to describe us when we all know that the far left is only a minority of the democratic party.\n\nDid you know that Clinton was a moderate democrat? Yep. But if you listen to ppl today, they say, '... that liberal democrat Clinton.....'.
1067716
I suppose it is ignorance or the lack of understanding of what the majority of Americans want for America. I've never seen a Liberal desire anything for all of America, unless it benefited them personally.  And I've never seen a Liberal seek anything that was morally wholesome and/or correct.\n\nSometimes we do not listen to the truth, because we don't want to hear it. Liberals and Democrats do not want our Conservative Republican President to succeed... (which not only makes our president look bad, but it makes America look bad.)\nand because of this, they bash the president, make up stuff...and spin their time stretching or changing the truth.\n\nMost answers to questions on this site, made by them, are "reportable" because they cannot argue their points without cursing or talking dirty. Very few appear educated, most are miss-informed, and all appear to have tunnel vision. (DESTROY and DISCREDIT the President and Republicans.)\n\nI never hear any positive directions or new ideas to help and support America. Just negativity from the left....\n\nBut then TRUTH is always a challenge to discredit.... maybe they just like a challenge!
519737
I agree with you.  I'm an Independent, and I'm really appalled by the level of belligerence and irrationality coming from the liberal left.  (I know that Democrats are not the same as liberals, but the party has lately chosen to align itself with those extreme left elements, which is why I would not vote for a Democrat right now).
572033
I would like to think that the Democratic party is in fact sick, but I'm afraid that a Liberal might construe that as an appeal toward homophobia.\n\nBeing a Democrat at one time, and wondering what happened to my party's blue collar apple pie roots, I started looking closely at its operation. As the US shifted toward global markets and technology in the early 80's, and taxpayers realized that Democratic revenue strategies choked US economy, like many other Democrats I became a Republican; i.e., it made economic sense.\n\nHowever, Democrat strategists like Bill Press and Kathleen Brown created big-business Republican boogey-men and structured their messages as appeals to fear. Barbara Boxer, for example, is classic when it comes to appeal to fear messages.\n\nRealizing that mainstream America did not buy into Democratic propaganda, the Democratic Party went after the "extreme" vote: Criminals including its rehabilitation poster children, Minority Groups including its homosexual poster children, State Employee Unions, men who serve feminism, and of course Democrats' favorite poster children, the impoverished welfare class. With a voting bloc this big, and as Californians have witnessed first-hand since the Willie Brown days, how could the Democrats lose?\n\nIn all but a few conservative counties and a few conservative districts, the Democrats are California's controllers, and they answer to the extremists who keep them in office year after year. Gay Davis, for example, pandered to illegal aliens for six years, and if California's Democrats could give illegal aliens voting rights, they would do that also.\n\nAs long as Gays show up at the polls and elect Democrats, we will continue to see bills like SB 1437.\n\nOTBPOC
144625
That more people voted Republican than Democrat.  The Democrats have not yet learned that the country is in fact becoming more conservative each day.  This would not be a problem if the Democrats would run a more moderate candidate with a moderate platform.  The reason this will not happen is Howard Dean is chairman of the Democrat party and will have a liberal platform that only a liberal candidate can even try to sell.
696814
Democrats are not dumb.  I know several who are very intelligent.  They just tend to be like sheep.  They believe everything any liberal says as if it where the word of God himself.  Just look at the garbage on moveon.org and you'll see what I mean.  Don't judge our democratic friends, just help educate them.
534833
because they are liberals !!!!! duh !