would you support a middle class american party that promotes the views of the average americans?
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If you could find "middle class" average people who agree. I do not think we could agree on who is middle class Harvard says single income of $41,000 & 2 income family of $72,000. I think anything below $150,000 is middle class. \nMy friends & I are middle class people, we do not live in mansions or have chaueffers, we are just regular people & we do not vote alike very often.\n\nIt is someone's dream that would would be democrats - and our nightmare. Middle Income - Kennedys, Clintons, Kerrys, rockafellares, Fords, Gates, Clooney, Oprah - I want their middle class income.
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1. I am a registered Democrat (although I do consider myself far more liberal-minded than most typical Dems).\n2. I have affiliated myself with this party because I feel Democratic politicians do a better job at representing interests that serve the working class middle Americans; for instance-Dems are more likely to raise minimum wage, more likely to push for social assistance programs, more likely to work towards improving health care and education just to name a few.  I would rather align myself with a more liberal party, but the way our two-party system has evolved, I feel that I would truly be non-effective.  One of my liberal ideals--because we live in a "free" country, I believe we should have the freedom to make choices, provided those choices do not harm others, and our government should pass laws to protect us in our choices.\n3. I can't say there was any one issue that had me join the party, nor did I realize right away that I would become so partisan.  When I first became interested in how my government affects my life, it was because of a bill Bill Clinton passed that allowed me to deduct my college tuition.  It was a huge help to me since I was attending a community college that did not offer student loans, and I had to pay for tuition as I went along.  I do not think I would have been able to make it through school if it weren't for this bill.  Since then, there have been a number of ideas (most often proposed by Democrats) that I have agreed with.  One thing I currently support about the Democratic party is the idea of justice and equality for all.  The idea that it is okay to deny a person rights or privileges based on differences (such as sexual orientation) I find extremely un-American.\n5. The Democratic party is definitely less unified than the Republicans, and I believe this has been detrimental to our country over the past ten years.\n\nI hope this helps you with your homework.  And I hope you come to really enjoy politics.  I wasn't very interested in politics in h.s. but in the twelve years since I have been out of school, I have come to realize how interesting the whole democratic process is.  This is OUR country, and it is up to us younger Americans to learn all we can about our past so we can take adequate charge of our future.  Good luck!
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not in the least but republicans do have a plan to middle and upper manage the world. More americans are needed to travel and assist overseas and south of the boarder operations given that most of those managers other then by birth would be picking cotton or other suitable work for the idiots colleges are turning out these days the idle rich have found a new niche in the world overseeing laborers in foriegn countries .americans are to good to clean up after themselves with both parents working jose cuts the grass for 20 dollars and takes him an hour so bob the homeowner is free to earn 75 dollars an hour to jump up and down yelling at employees to get busy or we will move the plant to mexico.where labor is cheaper and more reliable .this brings in a group of accountants that total up the assests of the company sell it to japaness business investors who have now broken the back of the union that use to work in the community.americans are rehired to do the same hard work for lower wages now because america is so loved by all the nations of the world we relocate the plant to chile where labor is only $3.00 a day bob makes several business trips a year to jump up and down  but to no avail he is promoted to the board of directors where him and his buddies vote for huge salaries and stock options upon which they retire.never doing more then yelling and screaming at others and taking all the credit for the work being done.being unfit to work in a society would normaly be a bad thing but here in america its an art form .we have plenty of people to work here in america they are just to busy jumping up and down doing nothing but selling american jobs down the river. creating a two class society those who work for a living and those who takee advantage of those who work for a living .so to end illegals we need to pay lettuce pickers 100 dollars an hour and  the management jobs of jumping which mexicans are good at they made it over the boarder and screaming have you ever seen them drink tequilia. the 10 dollar an hour worthless jobs after all jumping up and down screaming and yeeling has to be done by somebody right without executives flying all over the world in million dollar jets with million dollar salaries 700 guys in south america wouldnt go down in a deep hole digging for gold .right we arent that smart just that greedy that we deny people there natural resources work them long hours and spunge of others to make a living you republicans make me sick .
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The track record for third parties in this country has never been one of success. Even the Republican party only became viable after the whigs disbanded. I'm afraid the answer is yes, but not successfully. Americans only have the capacity to understand a binary political system. As long as the majority of the American sheeple continue to blindly toss thier votes away on these bufoons, we won't make any progress.
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You shouldn't be represented by a "party".  You should be represented by a person.  \n\nAs you look around the political landscape, you'll see examples of liberal Republicans, like Olympia Snow or Arlen Spector, conservative Democrats, like Zell Miller and Bob Casey, and moderates from both sides, like Joe Lieberman or John McCain.\n\nAll are popular with their constituencies, I'd guess more because of their positions than their party affiliation.  As it should be...right?
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The Democratic Party, because they represent the middle class and the poor and not the rich. They also dissapprove of the war in Iraq, which is also a big plus. They also support stem cell research, the list could go on and on.
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I would LOVE to see a real opposition party. I don't think it's gonig to happen though. We'll be stuck with the same 2 choices we always have, corruption or corruption.\n\nI hope, but doubt, that the Democrats rediscover enough of their collective spine to actually put forth some workable ideas. If they do it'll be a change for a party that stands for so little these days. \n\nPeople say there are two Americas. I think there are at least three. \n\nOne is Bush's America: an combination of the extreme Christian "neo-conservatives," corporate interests, the growing national police state, and payola. \n\nAnother is the Democratic "left": lots of ideas, but not enough balls to make them happen. \n\nI suspect there's a third America: members of an increasingly radical middle that will become more obvious in the next few years, tolerant of those who are different and aware that the big problems of our times are being ignored -- or made worse -- by those in power today. \n\nThat third America needs a candidate. Or, maybe, a new party.
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The Democratic approach to foreign policy it that militaristic force is always the last resort and that diplomacy should be utilized more often then is currently shown. The GOP (grand old party, republicans) outwardly do not help the middle and lower class, however through lobbyists and tax cuts for the upper class (earning class of More than $200,000 a year) the GOP consistently helps the rich.
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Independent\n\nNeither party represents Americans anymore!
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I wouldn't say that is 'Corporate America', but the republicans/Conservatives  who use that propaganda, even though both corporate and Conservatives want an unchecked, uneducated cheap labor pool.\n\n Not poor but middle class.
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The republicans cater to the wishes of the wealthy. At the expense of the poor. Reverse Robin Hood.\n\nThe democrats cater to the middle class and the poor which is good, but they also include deadbeats who are too lazy to work, and  irresponsible people who have seven children and live off the government.\n\n\nRepublicans don't care if jobs go overeseas because their closest associates will make money.\n\nDemocrats don't care if your tax dollars go to wastefull programs so long as the money is spent in their district.\n\n\nRepublicans put restrictions on research that could cure diseases and injuries because it 'MIGHT"  be immoral.\n\nDemocrats encourage irresponsible sexual encounters by promoting abortion rather than behavior that is moral.\n\n\nIf you can't tell both parties disgust me, I voted independent or green party for every candidate. We need to shake up the whole system and start fresh.
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I have never figured out how middle class and below would vote for a republican even if he was the only one on the ballot. But they do, they actually beleive that bullsh it. How dumb does a person have to be to keep shooting theirselfs in the foot. Have they lost their way. Ask Bill Gates or someother rich Bast ard.
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Democrat.  No.  Socialism does not work.  Neither does conservatism, which is one of the greatest scourges of human history.  Extremism is always bad for America.  That is why Democrats have been willing to fight fascists and communists alike, when Republicans would - and did - cut and run, and why Democrats have always supported the operations in Afghanistan.  "Of the people, by the people, for the people" is not a socialist tenet; how far Republicans have fallen from the height Abraham Lincoln set them upon!  Democrats won't turn America socialist; the idea that they would is just one of the many lies told by conservatives for the past hundred years or so.  For all their supposed morality, conservatives have proven to be the most corrupt and immoral of all; before Mark Foley there was Sulla of Rome.
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I sure do. He supports reform for Iraq policy and he supports the middle class as a whole. Just like all the democrats elected.
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White Christian Males in white collar jobs represent the stereotypical american if thats what you're asking.\n\nno political party accurately fully represents the majority of americans beliefs.  for example:\nrepublicans want immigration reform which most americans would agree with, but are also pro lifers which most americans would disagree with.  flip that around for democrats.
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Should they? No. Will they? Yes. \n\nPoliticians are a breed of short term thinkers. They care about today, ignore the past, and are oblivious to the future. \n\nIf someone is going to wave a huge bundle of cash to a cash strapped government, then you'll see many things be privatized without consideration of the long term impacts.\n\nI work for a government agency, and there was talk of privatizing it. Nobody but the governor was in favor of the idea. Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and many others in the community agreed that making the public service private would be worse for the community at large. \n\nThe governor has recanted his desire to privatize the institution. \n\nConsider for a moment what our lives would be like if every public service were privatized? We'd live in a very marginalized society with distinct differences between rich and poor. The middle class would be small, and almost non-existent. \n\nTake education. The GOP has been deliberately underfunding public schools so that they'll fail. As schools get worse, they begin to promote the idea of privatized schools. They'll sell us the notion that businesses are more efficient than government, and that businesses are not going to be pushed about by "liberal" politics. \n\nBottom line: they wish to create an expensive, class-based, tiered educational structure that panders to consumer interest at the expense of the public at large. \n\nProfit is the bottom line of businesses and private interests. Public welfare is no concern to the monied interests. \n\nJust image what kind of education poor Americans would receive if education was privatized. They'd get the McDonald's variant of education. Many middle income families would find themselves even further cash-strapped by having to pay for their child's education personally. \n\nNot to be rude, but there are things children need to learn away from the home beyond a watchful parent's eye. In particular, sex education. \n\nAs such, a privatized system would create a tailorized and custom made education instead of giving a broad and general education. \n\nSchools could teach their "preferred" method of teaching subjects like history, religion, and other humanities. \n\nWe'd lose cohesiveness and unity as a people if the system was privatized. \n\nLook at Indiana and other states that have privatized their tollway systems. Nobody is happy with the arrangements except the politicians that engineered the deal and the businesses that are raking in profits from the deal.\n\nPrivatization is basically a lose-lose situation for the public at large in a long-term context. It's a win-win for businesses and politicians of cash strapped governments. \n\nLastly, how do you hold a private business/group accountable. If they have millions of dollars and armies of lawyers and lobbyists, how do you compete with them if they do you or your community wrong? \n\nMoney corrupts. \n\nIt's our duty as citizens to safeguard our liberties. We need to stay informed, stay active, and keep our friends and family in the know. \n\nWe have to work against privatization if we wish to keep living in a free society.\n\nKeep in mind the purpose of having a government: to protect the public from each other, from private and secretive interests that have ambitions of power and control. \n\nGovernment is a tool that should provide protection of our civil liberties, our property, and our rights to pursue our own happiness. \n\nAs a tool, it's only as effective as the people running it. We need to put people in office that understand what government is, and how to use it. We need to stop putting people in government that use it for enhancing their business dealings and that have contempt for the government and its purpose. \n\nWe wouldn't hire a carpenter who hated tools. Why elect someone who hates government?
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Right on man!  That's true true true.\n\nThe republicans stand for getting rid of the middle class only for the benefit of the rich.The dont know jack.\n\nThe Repuglicans dont believe in fair chance anything.\n\nSee you in November to clean effen house!