Why does anyone vote for Democrats?

This is a bit of a rant but after seeing so many people complain that, because the Republicans won the majority of the Senate, black people across the country are going to be hurt or completely thrown to the side because the Republicans are so racist. I can't stand it and this is my argument as to why no one who thinks that people deserve equal rights, should vote for any Democrat.

 

 You do realize the KKK was started by Democrats, right? You do know that the most notable KKK member to ever serve in congress was a Democrat, right? You do know that the segregationists were Democrats, right? Why doesn't anybody remember that the only party that was fighting against the abolishment of slavery was the Democratic Party?

 

Their argument was that it was good for them and for our economy to keep them on the plantation because they did work that the civilized people wouldn't do(sounds a lot like what they say about illegal immigrants now). They argued that the black folks (henceforth referred to as "them, they, or their" because it was the term that was used) wouldn't be able to survive without their owners keeping them safe, because they weren't educated and weren't good for anything except being servants. After Dems lost, they argued that they were dirty and probably diseased so it wouldn't be okay to be close to them or they would rub off on them. Dems argued that they should be kept separate, but they could be equal by letting them sit in the back of the bus, or eat in the back of the restaurant, or sit in the balcony of the theater were the air conditioning didn't work.

 

After Dems lost that battle, they went to the argument that they wanted what was best for them so they would set up everything for them to get the best out of this country. They would give them good schools provided by the government, give them assistance to buy food if they couldn't quite make ends meet because it was only fair, and give them money for living expenses if they couldn't find a job right away. They created a system to keep them comfortable and then proceeded to degrade the inner city schools so the education system would keep them uneducated and then created government programs that would allow them to live just comfortable enough that they wouldn't have to try to make more. Dems then took control over the media so the only thing they would see in the paper or hear on the radio or TV would be what the Dems want them to hear. They created a system that would degrade the family by allowing men to make a family and then walk out on them and force single moms who could only work part time jobs to be reliant upon the government. They created a system that would allow them to demonize the people who talked about hard work and bettering yourself because "They don't understand your struggles." They won the trust of entire cities, and in some cases states, by demonizing employers and business owners for not paying a fair share to help them get the best stuff and claim that the business owners and Republicans are taking food out of the mouths of poor people by cutting food stamps as a scare tactic. They demonized share holders of businesses for wanting profit so they could get a return on their investments into the companies, and then demonized the free market that made the country we live in, into THE country everyone in the world wanted to come to so they could live their dreams.

 

This is why you don't see the Democrats proposing things that will bring jobs into the cities. They only propose raising taxes on the rich people and businesses, to pay for the handouts. When they raise the taxes they know it is going to force them to leave, to go places where the taxes are lower, so they can enjoy the fruits of their labor (just ask John Kerry about finding ways to avoid paying taxes). This in turn makes it even harder to pay for the handouts so they point to the rich people as the problem as to why the government can't take care of everyone. The thing that they never admit is that they will eventually run out of other people's money.

Conservatives know that we are all capable of accomplishing anything we put your minds to. Conservative know that no matter what we have been told, we are just as good as anyone else in this world. I'm no better than anyone else, but I'm also just as capable as everyone else. I may not be able to type 100 words per minute, or organize files, or sometimes even stay on one job at a time, so I purposely work in a field that is fitting what I am good at. We can ALL find something that we are good at or that, if we are lucky, we want to do with the time we are given here on Earth. We can ALL find something that can make our lives better and then work our hardest to be the best at it. We can ALL prosper if put our whole selves into what we do. We can ALL be great. We can ALL be more than we are now. We can ALL make this world a better place and make our marks. We don't need politicians to give us what we need because we are capable of doing it for ourselves. We almost all fall down at some point in time, and there are thousands of people or charities that can help us back up, and then when we are back up, we go out and make the best of our opportunities and then give back to the community so that we are helping others who are going through what we endured. We don't need the government to help us because we were helping each other before the government started handing out money. Why can't we do it again?

 



All of this being said, yes there are racist Republicans, just like there are racist Democrats. Some people are idiots. You can't fix stupid, but you can choose to not elect them. Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms are good examples, as Democrats who didn't like the Civil Rights Act, changed affiliation to the Dixiecrats and then completely flopped over to the party that actually voted to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you can name another Republican in a national government seat that was a staunch segregationist(like Jimmy Carter), I would like to hear about them.

 

With this election being over now, The United States Senate has seen 9 black senators, 5 Democratic and 4 Republican (the first 2 were Republicans from Mississippi and the 3rd a Republican from Massachusetts) and currently there are only two black Senators Tim Scott(R) from South Carolina and Cory Brooker(D) from New Jersey.