JOHN

Have it your way….it's all just a control-freak problem. Freakin' Democrats….control freaks.

That's your viewpoint, Jeff. It's a prime example of the dual narrative issue that hampers discourse. Much of what you said has truth in it…..but much has falsehoods and misinterpretations and implied misinterpretations.

Dixie dems did not side with the republicans, they sided with continued racism and bigotry, ideas abhorrent to conservatives. The KKK was founded by democrats, not republicans, look it up.

Unemployment is paid for by the companies that employ people, fdic is bankrupt due to the progressive policies regarding home ownership, that forgot the most important point, people need to be able to pay for their loans, not have them handed to them without having their abilities to pay them back checked.

And Social Security is a joke, if it is so good why dont your progressive politicians signup and pay into it, and drop there congressional retirement?
No answer, then why cant we opt out of SS and take that money and invest it ourselves, because your progressives see OUR money as theirs to do with what THEY please.

As many of your Progressive buddies voted for the Iraq and Afghani wars, I guess you would not have fought Japan after Pearl Harbor either? But then my point was that the progressive, protectionism, caused the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the attacks on this nation by islam are not the fault of OUR nation, but the deranged ideas of religions fanaticism and hatred of anything but a 11th century mindset.

Progressives and their love of the soviets, Karl Marx, and all they stand for, are the cause of all the nations problems today, The UN, a bankrupt government, poverty, the cost of health care, our weakened military, all of it, and all for one reason, to gain and hold political control over the american people, not because they want to help anyone.

The good things about our society were brought about by progressives. Not conservatives. Some conservatives joined in to support the leadership of progressives…..but progressives have been responsible for the creation of virtually every social program of value in America's history.

While it's true that after the civil rights days of the 1960's Dixiecrat Democrats left the Democratic Party and sided with Republicans, it is also true that the modern Democratic Party, imperfect as it is, continues to stand for progressive ideals.

You simply don't like those ideals.

Social Security is the most popular social program we have. Americans don't want to give up on Medicare or Medicaid. FDIC, unemployment compensation, women's rights, minority rights, on and on….brought into being because of progressives.

Conservatives, in the modern era, have cut taxes for the wealthy, insisted on destructive deregulation…and started wars of choice.

If as you say corporate america runs this nation, whose fault is that, who is the corrupt people that allow this? Why congress and politicians you fool, not corporations, but the politicians who sell their votes. They are the corruption that is killing this country, not corporations. Get a clue and you will begin to understand what we are saying.

Tell me just one idea the progressive democrats have had over the last 70 years that has actually accomplished what it set out to do? The Fed, come on they are a joke and we are broke, Welfare, nope, just created an enslaved class of dem voters, Medicare/caide, if they were so successful why would we need this travesty, Social Security, broke, and doesnt even reach the poverty level in payoffs. WWII, the great depression, vietnam, all lay at the feet of the dem party, and you want more of the same, that is lunacy at the highest level.

The sad part is when the Republicans had brief control of congress, they did not have the balls to roll back so many of the BS programs the progressives have saddled this country with, and now, an unelected bureaucracy has more power than anyone in this nation, the EPA, and all its corrupt marxist leaders now can tell congress, and you and I, what we can and can not do? Is that constitutional, that an unelected agency can make the laws?