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In reply to the discussion: Why are you a member of the Democratic Party? [View all]mikekohr
(2,312 posts)12. I Think, Therefore I Dem.
My grandmother, Sarah Taggert Kohr Raulston, widowed with 6 children in 1936, during the Republican gifted Great Depression, always told her grandchildren that she and her children would have starved to death had it not been for FDR and the Democratic Party. I have never forgot her gratitude or failed to heed the following: "It's a mortal sin to vote Republican."
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Registered as a Dem in 1965. Even then, I realized that it was the lesser of two evils.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2011
#1
Registered as a Democrat since the JFK election and have voted Democratic party since then. n/t
RebelOne
Dec 2011
#11
They were allowing girls to join the "all-boys club"..I liked their forward thinking..n/t
monmouth
Dec 2011
#2
I was a registered Democrat for over 30 years. I am now am registered as non-partisan in California
still_one
Dec 2011
#9
the dem party represents a collective way to consolidate Positive + Power.... I am supportive
opihimoimoi
Dec 2011
#28