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I am proud to be associated with a Democratic party that historically took the lead on nearly every program that helped create the middle class. Consider collective bargaining and worker rights, equal employment opportunity and civil rights, access to higher education, health care and income security, child protection and development, banking reform, and the list goes on.
I agree that the Dems have lost their way a bit and need to refocus their message as a party on their core values of using government to PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY for all (no, that doesnt mean government handouts) to participate in the American dream and live a more productive and healthy life.
Perhaps one of the Repub naysayers who believe this is crap can explain how $trillion+ in future deficits to our children as a result of tax cuts for the top 1% helps the middle class (please, not the "trickle down" nonsense)..or how cutting Pell Grants provides acccess to college to those who otherwise would not be able to afford it....or how cutting or ignoring previously enacted environmental regulations provide a safer and healthier place for the middle class to enjoy their leisure time (oh wait, fewer and fewer families have leisure time, with both parents having to work or one having to work two jobs in order to simply maintain an existing lifestyle). This list goes on and on as well.
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
~ Voltaire
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