Both parties have failed to implement public financing of campaigns, provide for free and equal ballot access, and free media for all candidates. For a true democracy, Blair Bobier , Oregon. I'm not a Democrat. Then a half-dozen years ago I realized that, while my values and core beliefs were intact, somewhere along the line the Democratic Party made a sharp turn away from my beliefs. We seem to have strayed from the widsom of Lincoln.
People are too dependent on government.
Only if the State can't handle it, should the Federal Govt. be called in. The party of conservation was once the Democratic Party, but no more. The conservationists have been replaced by the preservationists and doomsayers, many of whom are seeking to turn the clock back to a time before humans ever walked the earth. It is one thing to oppose clear- cutting a forest, for example, as such activity is intensely destructive. It is something else altogether to oppose cutting a single tree, as the preservationists do, merely because it is old forgetting in the process that the nearby seedling from the old tree will grow in the new sunlight.