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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Been a democrat all my life, voted for Obama, Clinton and reluctantly for Biden over the last election.
What happened to the party? This use to be the party of free speech, anti-war, about freedom of religion and about helping the poor and disaffected that were hurt by the pains of globalization.

I have seen over the past decade the party being completely co-opted by the military industrial complex, to the point where people are foaming at the mouth over wanting to fight in Ukraine. I have seen the party completely ditch the struggling blue collar worker to get into bed with large tech billionaires. I have seen it now completely on the side of censorship and the use of authoritarian tactics when it comes with dealing with oppositional speech.

The democratic party now reminds me of the neocons of the Bush era? Anyone else get this feeling?

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I have no idea what you are talking about.

It is still the party of free speech, but we are in a "cold war" with propagandists from China, Russia etc who are attacking our country via bought news outlets, social media channels etc, so how do we fight that war while maintaining first amendment freedoms?

Anti war is still anti-war, but standing up to a regional bully with nuclear weapons by sending arms to help fight the bully is not the same as committing troops to send abroad for endless missions or unwinnable wars. You cannot equate support for the Ukrainian people and anything in the Vietnam War era. they aren't the same.

Freedom of religion...I don't even know what you are referring to. If anything. the GOP is treading on my rights with their imposition of their interpretation of Christian values on to my non-Christian self, particularly where abortion is concerned.

This administration has done more to shift resources to the poor and abandoned than any administration since the New Deal.

You are really going to have to have some specifics to lay context to your complaints.[/quote]

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