why do people vote democratic?

[Fletch]

Fletch I know you aren't saying you personally believe that passage to be true, but I fail to recognize that socialist part of it. That passage refers to David's prophecy announcing Jesus. Could you be referring to Acts 2:42-47? I believe the Church of Scientologists interpret that passage for similar reasons that socialists do.

IBTL

Must have mistyped, sorry about that. Yes, the one I mean is Acts 2:42-47:

42They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." -- Karl Marx

 

[ghunter]

People vote democrat because they think they are helping people. The democrat party has done an impressive job selling itself as the party for the little guy.

 

[Hoosier8]

People vote democrat because they think they are helping people. The democrat party has done an impressive job selling itself as the party for the little guy.

Whether it is true or not anymore and may have been at one time by promising goods from the treasury, or redistribution of wealth. The democrat party during the last elections have been targeting the middle class mostly. I know democrats that have misgivings about their own party because of abandoning the "little guy".

Now you might say that Obama claimed he was for the "little guy" but campaigned on the middle class and so far all that have benefited have been big business and banking.

There is little difference between the republican and democrat politicians IMO as they all start campaigning for whatever will garner the most votes, but the difference between conservatives and liberals is that the goal is the same, just the method of getting there is different. To put it simply, the conservatives want to teach people how to fish and the liberals want to take it from those who know how and give it to those that don't.

The problem is trying to codify personal responsibility when it is becoming a lost art due to previous legislation and now people "expecting" the government to bail them out of their own difficulties.

 

[ghunter]

People vote democrat because they think they are helping people. The democrat party has done an impressive job selling itself as the party for the little guy.

Let me clarify my friends. I said that they were good at selling their brand. I didn't say the product was any good.