Originally Posted by dig420

It's republicans that have no balls for any enemy capable of fighting back. They only like quick dirty realpolitik wars. When it comes to the real thing they put their tail between their legs and run... you can see this in the fact that very few, if any, republican leaders ever served in the military, although they're totally gung ho about getting everyone else's kids killed. They wanted to sit out WWII as well and it was 'bleeding heart liberals' that forced them into it, kicking and screaming. Democrats didn't want the Iraq war because it was a stupid war, and there was no reason to fight it. I think that's pretty obvious by now.

Also republicans ARE our enemies when it comes to porn, much worse than democrats. If there was no pressure from the right, you would never hear the word 'porn' coming from a democrats lips. It's the right-wingers who want to take books off the library shelves, label everything 'indecent' and shut us down.

Federalism is a good thing as long as you have a representative govt., it always has been. The whole idea that conservatives are anti-govt. came about because they used 'states rights' as a euphanism for being pro-slavery. There are to this day no republican leaders who give a flying fuck about states rights, except that it's the only way that they can get out of enacting anti-discrimination statutes.

Maybe, since this is SUCH a difficult decision for you, you can take a moment and ask yourself: When - in all of recorded history - have the Conservatives EVER been proven, over the passage of time, to have been correct about ANY major issue? Just once, show me where they were on the right side of an issue.

It's a fucking mystery to me how people can agonize over such a simple debate as right or left. If our educational system was worth a flying fuck, and half our politicians weren't anti-intellectual, there would be no debate at all. There's a reason why a HUGE percentage of college graduates are democrats or lean left. It's what happens to you when you actually know government and you've learned enough to not be so easily demagogued by any redneck asshole with a megaphone.