Are you a "Once Every Four Years" Democrat?

[chupacabranation]

I am rediscovering my civic pride.

Where were all these people before?

Oh that's right. I was apathetic. Happy to be a "Once Every Four Years" Democrat - instead of fighting for everything I should be fighting for.

This video from Marcy Kaptur reminds me of how great a nation we have, and how hard we should be fighting for it. Every. Day.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=mbD62gNi9WE

[ThatsMyBarack]

1. Not me!

I've been an "Everyday Democrat" for as long as I can remember, and so have my family members! :patriot:

[chupacabranation]

4. Good job.

I am in spirit, for sure. I can talk anyone's ear off about my Democrat pride.

But not in deed.

I need to be doing more than just voting. And it's finally clear to me now.

[MercutioATC]

2. I'm a "three out of four years" Dem.

I need a breather every once in a while :)

[Hissyspit]

3. No, I am a "Vote For A Republican? Are You Out Of Your Friggin' Gourd??" Democrat.

Vote every primary, every off-year election.

[chupacabranation]

5. HAHAHAHA n/t

[RainDog]

6. No. The democratic party, however, hasn't been very inspiring lately, beyond Obama

Obama gives great rhetoric, but to tell you the truth, I don't think the democratic party has been very democratic lately. In fact, I think that the democratic party has betrayed the democratic base and they should face some consequences for this... like democratic opposition in their state elections.

sort of like Lieberman - who, let's remember, LOST the nomination in his state to a democrat, Ned LaMont. Lieberman ran as an independent and got the support of lots of current members of the legislative branch. they supported that asshole who betrayed them and everyone else who had to vote for his sorry ass in 2000. He repulsed me then and he's done nothing to change that - well, except to increase that revulsion and to know that my instincts about him were right.

So as far as I'm concerned, the democratic party needs to remember why it gets elected.

I hope Obama will clean house in the DNC, along with Dean.

I realize it's too much to ask for democrats to do things like... enforce the law or uphold the constitution, but they might want to try to not support a candidate running against the democratic one.

I vote "with" the democratic party because I have no other viable choice. I wish I did. But in the U.S. we really get very little choice as far as representative govt... middle-right and ultra right wing aren't really all that great as far as choices go.

[chupacabranation]

8. I hear you on that...

...Many of my independent friends feel the same.

The GOOD news is the demographic is shifting and I don't think it's always going to be this way (binary); the entire enchilada is being liberalized on the whole, which means that at some point in the next 5-15 years, I think there will actually be a third choice.

When the older folks who constitute the conservative base aren't around - I think things will shift so far to the left that we will see a whole new political terrain.

I'm a Democrat, but I really want there to be a choice for you, and I hope there is someday soon.


:toast:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. If I was any more an "Every Day Dem"...

I think the people of this little, mostly repuke town I live in would burn me out. ;-)

[Captiosus]

9. I had to do some soul searching to realize where I fit

I always loved politics but I never identified with a party since before I was voting age.

My dad was Republican, though he would always state he never voted party (which is a lie), and my mom was Independent who, usually, ended up voting what my Dad said just so he wouldn't be angry. My household was, well, old-fashioned.

I never really thought about what party I fit into, even though I had voted for Gore in '00 and Clinton in '96.

That changed in 2004 when I voted for Kerry and my Dad caught wind of it and tried to tear me a new arse. It culminated in a three day argument where I ended up laying out, for the first time, everything I believed in.

That's when it hit me: WHAM! I'm a liberal Democrat. Been a daily democrat ever since, though it wasn't until recently that I decided to hop into the Blogosphere.

[RainDog]

10. pardon me, but who the fuck is your dad to demand you vote as he says?

And what does that say about his understanding of democracy?

[Captiosus]

11. I agree with you and I'm not out to defend my dad

He's since passed on, but what you have to understand is my dad was part of that generation where "the man was the patriarch of the family and you do as he says".

Born in 1930 and raised in that culture, he espoused it completely.
His word was "law". His opinion was "fact".
At least in his own mind.

The funny thing was he never really acted like towards me (towards my mom was a different story) while I was growing up, but after I moved out, and he got older, he became increasingly more patriarchal in his attitude.

My paternal grandparents were the exact same way except they were also severely racist. You really don't want to know the kinds of things I heard my grandmother say about Governor Wilder, our first black governor.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

12. I am a say it loud and proud Democrat

always have been

[AlCzervik]

13. i live in California, we vote all the time so it's always political season around here.