Dems didn't take voters for granted, voters took Dems for granted [View all]
The Democratic party has been the party for 3 generations that has brought prosperity and freedom to Americans. It was FDR and the Democratic super majority that created Social Security and the programs of the New Deal that saved this country during the Depression years which came as the result of Republican's failed fiscal policy. It was these years that the government protected labor unions and their members.
That middle class prospered into the fifties. It was the Democrats who gave us Medicare and Medicaid under LBJ as well as the civil rights act and the voting rights act. It was a Democratic and Liberal Supreme Court that gave women control over their own bodies. It was the same Supreme Court that protected workers' rights against unfretted "right to work" laws. Affirmative action, gay rights and Obamacare, all advances in helping Americans gain additional freedoms, prosper and remain healthy.
The Democratic Party has never taken its voting constituency for granted. It's quite the opposite. Our voters have thought that all these rights could never be taken away. Well, think again. Every one of those hard-earned rights, including the Democracy our grandfathers and fathers risked or gave their lives for, can cease to exist.
If the people who have benefited the most from the over 90 years of Democratic policies hand the government over to those who have battled us, all of us, every step of the way, you will learn how hard it was to win those rights. And it just may take another 90 years to win them all back.
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