Democrats

The Democrats have many strengths and weaknesses that help people to choose what political party they affiliate themselves with. To help you decide here are the major strengths and weaknesses, in my opinion, of the Democrats.

In my opinion, since I affiliate myself more with the Democrats, there are many strengths.

From the following links 1, 2, 3, 4, many facts and statements are given. Most Democrats believe in higher minimum wages to help with the working poor. Democrats usually oppose tax cuts for our economy and "typically favor higher taxes"says yestodemocracy. Also on the topic of taxes, many Democrats think that the richer and larger companies should pay higher taxes that the lower earning and poorer people. The Democratic party, as money matters thinks, has a "strong stand on affirmative action, welfare for the lower class, unemployment labor unions, and immigration." When it comes to education, college, and money, Democrats have a great view. They want to "aim to provide low-cost publicly funded college education with low tuition fees and increase availability of grants and scholarships" and that "college tuition [should be] tax deductible." In a short and sweet Democratic view on Abortion, Democrats believe in easy access to birth control, public funding for contraception for the poor, and believe that choice is a fundamental right that all women (should) have.

On the issue of our environment the Democrats have many views and suggestions. From ezinearticles most Democrats want to "strengthen environmental protection laws and impose stringent sanctions on polluters". Money Matters says that Democrats believe that "we cannot drill our way to energy independence". Also that we need to "Develop renewable energy and efficient vehicles. [And that our governments should] Invest in technology and transportation [that is] friendy to the earth".

Discrimination and Gay rights is also an important issue that people look at when deciding what political party they affiliate themselves with. Ezinearticles states "[the Democratic party] believes that discrimination against persons because of their sexual orientation is wrong, and they support adoption rights for same-sex couples". Ontheissues thinks that "Racial and religious profiling is wrong, and that there should be affirmative action to redress discrimination". The also think that marriage laws should be kept at the state level, not the federal level.

In my opinion, from the above given links there are two main weaknesses of the Democratic party. They "believe in the use of military force against those responsible for attacks against the United States, [and that] we do not have to choose between our economy and our environment"