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Template:WP has The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is a liberal party to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the rest of the world.

The Party is currently the majority in the House of Representatives, as well as in governorships and state legislative seats. Democrats are tied with Republicans (49-49-2) in the U.S. Senate but act as the majority party there since both independents caucus with the Democrats.

In contemporary times, its primary political ideologies are commitment to tempering capitalism with programs of social welfare. Some other issues have included support for high taxation, strict gun control, a pro-abortion stance, secularism, a multilateral foreign policy except for the frequent unilateralism of President Clinton, governmental and private sector actions to create new jobs, environmentalism, public education, the right of workers to organize in labor unions, and a claim to support for civil rights in contrast to the Democrats' previous support of slavery and segregation.

Libertarians in the Democratic Party are organized into the Democratic Freedom Caucus and maintain a community blog called Freedom Democrats.

A caucus of relatively fiscally conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives is organized as the "Blue Dog Democrats".

Overview

  • Party Chairman: Howard Dean
  • Senate Leader: Harry Reid
  • House Leader: Nancy Pelosi
  • Founded: 1792
  • Headquarters: 430 South Capitol Street SE Washington, D.C. 20003

Democratic Party National Leadership

List of Democratic Party organizations

Libertarian reforms supported by some Democrats

(see Third major party strategy).

Statist policies generally favored by Democrats

  • Gun control (not universally favored, see Amendment II Democrats)
  • High taxation
  • Affirmative action
  • Socialized health care
  • Involuntary Social Security run by the government
  • Government funding for abortions
  • Internationalist foreign policy
  • Strengthening of drug laws
  • Restrictions of private schools and home schooling

Anti-Semitism and the Democrat Party

Anti-Semitism has been growing amongst liberals and Democrats in the United States of America, The Institute for Jewish & Community Research, did a study of who is anti-semitic, and found that people who identify as being Democrat are consistenly more likely to believe any anti-semitic belief than a Republican or a Libertarian. The data from the survey also revealed a connection between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. This is important since liberals are more likely to be anti-Zionist than conservatives and libertarians. The study found that the young, who are more likely to be liberal, are also more likely to be Anti-semites than people over age 35. The study found that more than 75% of Democrats hold at least one anti-semitic belief. According to the study 20% of Democrats believe Jews care only about themselves[1]

Recently, liberal atheist Richard Dawkins came under criticism for saying that the Religious Jews monopolize control over the American government.

See also


External links

  1. ↑ http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30503
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