What about all the democrats who aren't politicians? Why would they only be concerned with how others might vote?
I am a democrat. I care about being HUMANE. And if I KNEW that every 'illegal' planned to vote republican, it wouldn't change the way I feel about that issue.
Mrs. H, I'm sure you already know this. But Republicans are becoming fewer and fewer by the year. They don't want to identify themselves as Republicans anymore. Many would rather identify as independent. I've heard several different people talk about this. My own son, he's 22.
He doesn't like the way the Republican party has become. He says that too many people are sliding too far right. They've slid so far to the right that they sound crazy. Believe crazy things. As for him, he doesn't want to be identified as being part of that group. But, at the same time, he doesn't want to be called a Democrat either.
He said that many of his age wanted things to be in the middle. He said that to him the only thing left that hadn't gone off its rocker was Independent.
But, on the other side of that, there are the diehard Republicans. The diehard Republicans complain about these immigrants. They don't want to help the immigrants at all. And they get pissed off because the Democrats will. They try to say that the Democrats are doing nothing but trying to score browny points with these people so they will eventually be voting for Democrats.
When that's not true. The truth, the Democrats, through all there failures and shortcomings, at least they haven't slid so far that they have forgotten there humanity. That's one thing that is turning young people away from the Republican party. Too many are just hateful. Too many believe outlandish tails with nothing to back it up. The Republican party just isn't what it used to be.
Just my personal thought. The Republican party took it's biggest tumble when Obama took office. That's when I noticed the first big change. They fought Obama tooth and nail on everything. They became the party of "NO" and obstructionism. And it's been downhill ever since. Then Trump came along and finished dragging the Republican party down into the sewer. Now, under Trump, to many Republicans are flirting with dictator/autocracy. And I don't even think they realize it.
People are defecting from the GOP. But not to the Democrats
"Fewer people say they consider themselves Republicans, according to recent polling. But they're not becoming Democrats instead.
That's the conclusion of an analysis of Gallup data by Marquette Law professor and pollster Charles Franklin. He found that while there is a slight increase in Democratic Party support among Americans, more Americans are just becoming pure independents".
http://www.cnn.com/2018/02/14/politics/fewer-republicans-more-independents-no-parties/index.html
Trump owns a shrinking Republican party
http://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/06/14/trump-owns-a-shrinking-republican-party/
The fringes of both parties are way too far from the main stream. You have many democrats way to the left and many republicans to the right. This is probably the reason very little gets accomplished in DC. Personally, I believe Trump is much more centrist than democrats give him credit for. Politically, he has been pushed to the right if he is to maintain any political support over the democrats character assignation of him.
One of the underlying factors in any political discussion is the prevailing attitudes between conservatives and progressives toward social/welfare programs. Democrats are much more willing to provide handouts to the failures in society while republicans believe in providing everyone an opportunity to be the best they can. If you, as an individual, are not willing to take advantage of your opportunities, that is not my problem to fix. It is obvious to see this in any of the campaign rhetoric from the democratic candidates.
