Democrats (Pro) vs Republicans (Con)

America has had competing ideologies for centuries. But, today we have two main political parties. Only one has mainly contributed to the advance of society in modern day. We have had a shift in the parties in the 60s, and now one should win the elections today. Conservatism destroys the economy with trickledown. Millionaires are the main ones who gain from this. That is why they tend to vote Republican, the republicans lower taxes on the rich and increase taxes on the middle class who cannot afford such a tax increase. Now, I must admit this can be wrong sometimes. Some presidents will lower taxes on everyone. I cannot debate this, some democrats believe in lowering taxes. I am one of those types of democrats, I believe in lowering taxes on everyone to make the economy grow. You can call me a new democrat, like Bill Clinton. The economy has soared under democrats in modern day and caused recession and depression through republicans. Herbert Hoover, Reagan, and Bush Jr. have all caused terrible recessions/depressions. But, there is a trend in these people. All have a democrat come after and have the economy be good. At least better than it was before. Obama has fixed the recession, FDR fixed the depression (with a little help from the war), and Bill Clinton turned deficiet into surplus. My next point would be social issues. Such as abortion and gay marriage, republicans have held us back on both. Gay marriage was only legalized nationwide in 2015. Roe v Wade is being contested by conservatives on almost a daily basis. You cannot argue that the republicans are the progressive party. Republicans also believe the death penalty should be nationwide, I am strongly against it. In many cases they get the verdict wrong, which means they execute someone who is indeed innocent. The death penalty also costs way more than it should. It costs more to put someone to death than put them in prison for life. It is hard to believe, isn't it? Gun control is also a big problem among americans. Many conservatives think that President Obama is trying to 'steal their guns!" But, of course that is a lie. What President Obama is actually trying to do is initiate common sense gun laws. It does not violate the second amendment, except if you are mentally insane or on the no fly list for a good reason. Congress, controlled by republicans, did not approve these things. Tell me, would you rather have insane people having AR15s or have everybody have a gun? It is a pretty easy question if you ask me. I would like to go back to what we had in the 90s under President Clinton. A ban on all assault weapons. Yes, it may sound crazy now because congress cannot even pass such an easy common sense law, but in the 90s we had a ban on assault weapons, under a democratic congress. It just made sense, what would you use an assault weapon for besides killing multiple people? The last social issues which I will address in this debate is *drum roll please* the Affordable Care act, AKA Obamacare. I like many republicans see flaws in Obamacare, but overall I believe it is fine. The president elect, who is a republican, wants to repeal and replace Obamacare as he stated in a tweet. This is absolutely ridiculous if you had to live through the years of the privatized health care. I think many people on this website have, so many of you know the terrible things of that experience. My next set of issues is foreign. We face many foreign threats out today. ISIS, cyber attacks, North Korea, Iran, and many more are threatening to this great nation of ours. I think it is very clear to see which party can lead us through this issues, democrats. This is because Republicans are very uneducated and do not know how to deal with this issues. They state that they really want to defeat ISIS, but if they wanted to defeat ISIS then I think they would support the common sense gun laws. And they say that they want to make sure Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, but if they did why you would they not support the Iran deal which makes Iran not have a nuke for years to come. The republicans instead shut down the government and annoy everyone, bringing congress's approval ratings to around 10%. In cyber attacks, many republicans (not saying them all) deny that Russia hacked the DNC, when literally so many departments of intelligence and investigation agree on it. The North Korean problem will not be solved militarily, but diplomatically. We cannot risk the chance of nuclear war with superpowers, such as Russia. I believe in a strong america, but we do not have to be in more pointless wars. Also, republicans believe we should not accept the Syrian refugees, this is very cruel and inhumane. I support letting in the refugees with background checks, since it is likely that at least one is a terrorist. But there are thousands upon thousands, we cannot deny these people the american dream that we have promised all the other people of this country. I hope to here your arguments.