I vote Republican. Democrat vs. Conservative , right-leaning. Economic Ideas Minimum wages and progressive taxation , i. Born out of anti-federalist ideals but evolved over time to favor more government regulation. Believe taxes shouldn't be increased for anyone including the wealthy and that wages should be set by the free market. Social and human ideas Based on community and social responsibility Based on individual rights and justice Stance on Military issues Decreased spending Increased spending Stance on Gay Marriage Support some Democrats disagree Oppose some Republicans disagree Stance on Abortion Should remain legal; support Roe v.
Wade Should not be legal with some exceptions ; oppose Roe v. Wade Stance on Death Penalty While support for the death penalty is strong among Democrats, opponents of the death penalty are a substantial fraction of the Democratic base. A large majority of Republicans support the death penalty. Stance on Taxes Progressive high income earners should be taxed at a higher rate. Generally not opposed to raising taxes to fund government.
Tend to favor a "flat tax" same tax rate regardless of income. Generally opposed to raising taxes. Stance on Government Regulation Government regulations are needed to protect consumers. Government regulations hinder free market capitalism and job growth. Healthcare Policy Support universal healthcare; strong support of government involvement in healthcare, including Medicare and Medicaid.
Generally support Obamacare. Private companies can provide healthcare services more efficiently than government-run programs. Oppose Obamacare provisions like 1 requirement for individuals to buy health insurance or pay a fine, 2 required coverage of contraceptives. Stance on Immigration There is greater overall support in the Democratic party for a moratorium on deporting - or offering a pathway to citizenship to - certain undocumented immigrants. Republicans are generally against amnesty for any undocumented immigrants.
They also oppose President Obama's executive order that put a moratorium on deporting certain workers. Republicans also fund stronger enforcement actions at the border. Differences in Philosophy Republican philosophy leans more towards individual freedoms, rights and responsibilities. Role of Government One of the fundamental differences between Democratic and Republican party ideals is around the role of government.
Military Republicans: Prefer increasing military spending and have a more hard line stance against countries like Iran, with a higher tendency to deploy the military option. Gun control laws Democrats favor more gun control laws e.
Abortion Democrats support abortion rights and keeping elective abortions legal. Death Penalty The majority opinion in America about the death penalty is that it should be legal. Related: A comparison of Donald Trump and Joe Biden's Tax Policies Minimum Wage Democrats favor increasing the minimum wage, including a setting a federal limit so that it also applies in so-called red states.
Foreign Policy U. Deportations Both Democratic and Republican administrations have used and favored deportations. Legal immigration Republicans favor legal immigration to be "merit-based" or "point-based". Civil Rights Abraham Lincoln belonged to the Republican Party, so the roots of the party lie in individual freedom and the abolition of slavery.
And how many voted for cloture to break the filibuster? So in proportional terms, the Republicans supported this bill much more than the Democrats did in both houses. And their legacy is jettisoned at that moment. PURDUM: In some important way that was the beginning of changing the Republican Party from the party of Lincoln into the party of white backlash which is, frankly, reputation that in the South particularly endures to this day, and has hurt the Republican Party as a national brand in presidential elections.
Voter ID laws Civil liberties groups like the ACLU criticize the GOP for pushing for voter ID laws — Republicans believe these laws are necessary to prevent voter fraud while Democrats claim that voter fraud is virtually non-existent and that these laws disenfranchise black and Hispanic voters who tend to be poorer and unable to obtain ID cards. Black Lives Matter The Black Lives Matter movement is a mostly Democratic priority while Republicans have expressed more concern about the shootings of police officers.
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Comments: Democrat vs Republican. Anonymous comments 5 April 8, , am A I strongly agree and disagree with both parties Ideology. Get rid of them, and congressman and politicians wouldn't know what to do with themselves — Related Comparisons.
Contribute to Diffen Edit or create new comparisons in your area of expertise. Log in ». You know who you are. Difference between republicans and democrats?? I literally could go hours on that one but how about for our devoted and hopelessly delusional republican CULT members, just take a look at former GOP governor Charlie Crist new book about how the republican party has gone extreme right!
Charlie Crist? You mean the guy even liberals called a RINO and an opportunist. Why do you always use such terrible examples? He positioned himself as a conservative to keep those in his own party happy. But his actions spoke otherwise. As governor from to , Crist bucked the GOP on items such as voting rights and environmental issues.
Many Republicans believe his order to restore felons voting rights, and increase early voting hours helped President Obama carry the state in You are a riot! Many millionaires evade paying tax dollars by cheating on their taxes, and that can be a big deal to the americans who pay taxes so our bills get paid.
What Marci said is no where near the truth with regard to either party. Democrats are absolutely NOT socialist. Not even close. Republicans like to lump everyone who is not extreme right wing together, and call them all socialist.
Democrats also generally believe in progressive ideas like protecting the environment, regulating the safety of the food we eat and medicines we take, and building roads and airports and schools and other infrastructure that benefits all Americans. And yes, Democrats believe that billionaires can afford to pay more in taxes that pay for those roads and schools than poor people can afford to pay.
And Democrats believe that there needs to be some reasonable regulations on Big Businesses to try to protect consumers from predatory business practices and fraud, and to try to prevent the kinds of business excesses that contributed to the Financial Crisis and to the giant BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Republicans generally believe in no regulations at all, or very few, on businesses, in what economists call Laissez Faire Economics, which is part of the economic policies that contributed to the Great Depression of the s and the Great Recession of , as well as to environmental problems such as oil spills and Global Climate Change.
Republicans also generally believe in cutting taxes for Corporations and wealthy people, in a relief that if these wealthy people and Big Corporations have more money they will invest it in America and create more jobs for Americans.
The biggest problem is the only thing Republicans are interested in is winning. They take position that they think will win, regardless of whether it is a complete opposite of the position they took three days prior. Everything else is up for grabs. It was Newt Gingrich that said a national health care plan would only work if it had an individual mandate.
In fact, almost every idea that Obama has presented on taxes, immigration, the military, and a range of other topics was once a GOP idea… as soon as Obama suggested them, all of a sudden the GOP was against it. The Republicans are Chameleons, fair weather friends, and unreliable to take a position and stay with it. Unfortunately, they are a poor judge of the public opinion and how it is trending, always ending up a couple years short. Their ONLY strength is adversarial.
They are good at making the other guy look evil, but hold no ideas or solutions of their own, just criticism of the other side and their IDEAS….. Since the topic is Difference, your premise, by definition, must be that what you claim of the Republicans is not true of the Democrats. I contend that there is: 1 No difference in the need to win by any politician or their ardent supporters, and that 2 Democrats are more likely to change positions.
Point 1. Each party exists by driving their constituents into an emotional frenzy so they are in such a panic they will part with money and vote to keep the world from collapsing — which would be guaranteed if someone from the other party wins, because they want to destroy America.
Generally, the crackpots are more energized when the other party is in power. Sadly, few are principled enough to put the feet to the fire of their own. Otherwise, we concur that both parties are equally guilty.
Point 2. Republicans are more conservative than liberals. By definition, they change less. Democrats, on the other hand, kept taking God and Israel out of the platform. The difference between and is amazing, for those who bother basing their opinion on historical, verifiable facts. They oppose the status quo on the first two and want to force everyone to participate in the latter.
You say that all republicans try to do is win. I have to agree. Republicans do try to win and if you did not know it is called competition which is one of the fundamentals of our government. I assumed minerva was your typical low information republican male, well I might have been wrong about our resident republican cheerleader, maybe our republican butt kissers is a low information female??
My God! Democrats rob Peter to pay Paul. It is the whole idea behind a tiered tax system. The Democrats support the minimum wage increase, but it never happens. That would cause millions of businesses to close. Sounds good, but in this economy, where there are the back buster, uneducated, workers that work in those minimum wage jobs, would not have those jobs anymore if the minimum wage went up.
Nobody whether they are democrat or republican is going to fix or change anything. We should all do this, find out the world events at all times, but keep our asses home and develop the most military defense plans and programs where no other country can touch us.
I mean become the most secure and advanced than any other country to where if anyone did come to harm us, it would be fatal, and that would keep our enemies on their own ground. We just need to keep our asses here and not fund anymore wars that really dont concern us. Going to the middle east and teaching them how to govern was years of waste and a waste of the american dollars. Plus it caused the extremists to radicate, and now look; ISIS.
Lets spend our own money here putting up defense around us and daring any fools to try and mess with us. Now let me stop here because I could go on for hours. But, really neither party matters, because congress is going to write the checks, and there will be a few changes made when we elect our next President, but those changes I fear will be to no good effect.
That last rant was embarrassing! LMFAO really??? A- how the FU K would he know?!! The GOP dying? LMFAO really sarah? OH, but wait, tell us mini, how honorably he served in Nam?! Billodot, thank you!! Now lets talk about embassy attacks, shall we?? Jesus Christ, minerva are you really dense enough to believe that lame juvenile game?? She has never run for any other public position, including treasurer for the local youth soccer club, and is now running for one of the most prestigious positions in America other than President… Senator.
Hmmmmm… woman? She is running against the ACA and was doing great………………………. UNTIL it came out that she was stalking and harrassing her ex husband until he filed a restraining order which he later rescinded, to be fair but wait there is more!!! Her ex was politically active, donating large sums of money to the man running for the SAME Senate seat.
The govenment IS the constitution, and was written to protect the people from ideologies like the one you so blindly buy into. Poor, poor lemmings….. You republicans typically are the nastiest, ill mannered, hateful people on Earth! You republicans always play the victim!
Billodot, good stuff! Like Soros has a fraction of the wealth the koch brothers have!! Theres a movie coming out by Greenwald about the evil koch brothers and theres a NEW book coming out! Looking at the first part of these post looks as if some of you have made total fools of yourselves using foul language basically trailer trash talk with no facts or sold ideas just loud street talk sorry to inform you guys the business world does not care about you trash talk at all.
With that said I give a high five to all the Democrats that dismissed this kind of behavior I would love to debate with you and help solve real world problems I have voted both parties many times when I feel it is needed and yes we do have some bad Republicans too. Bottom line is work ethics what can you do to help your country not what your country can do to help you work on your problems do not expect other people to bail you out.
As far as charity and welfare is concerned that should be handled at the local level not the federal level people in Washington do not know what the heck is going on in small town Indiana?? I do not have a college education and I grew up very poor I started my own technology business by lots of reading and hard work and perfection my skills its not hard just takes work.
If you pay taxes buddy let me tell you, that your money will go to welfare and SSI persons, and thats just how it is and should be. You should be ashamed of yourself for saying what you said.
We put all those people together forced to live in poverty, and expect them not to act in crime in order to survive? Come on Mr. You really pissed me off. You think they are just lazy? Is that what you think is going on here? Boy do you need a spiritual makeover. God is real, and just as you are a successful business man, it can all be gone and you could find your ass seeking benefits. You really need to stop and take a look at YOUR part in how you can make this country better, just by your own actions.
Your not successful, because successful people give it away in order to keep it. So much to learn, you better hurry. Oh and you should try a little Jesus, too. I mean people like you piss me off. Your a grench buddy. I mean how are you going to control what your tax dollars are spent on. What a fuckin joke of a man. I bet your the asshole that walks past a homeless man who is obviously hungry, with ease, and without it bothering you, and thinking, he should get a job, or he just wants alcohol.
I give them money, because I feel like I am helping someone besides myselfish self. I cant receive Help with food. I like How you did not comprehend my statement. Same as you have the right to vote So do I regardless of my education or who I choose to vote or if I choose to switch. It my right and I will exercise in such. Good day sir. While we all express our strong critical opinions and push our agendas, the very fiber of our nation continues to decline morally, spiritually, economically, etc.
When we see our land under siege and our economy crash which is scheduled to occur this year , remember… God never despises a humbled and repented heart. They may sound like idiots, but do you have to say it? Most people who posted in here sound like they believe guns kill people. You make yourself fat not the spoon or fork.
Ponder that one lol. Who was talking about guns?????? However, you will find that there are many quite intelligent members who do not spend their lives on a website bashing everyone who does not agree with you. Also, guns do NOT kill people, people use guns to kill people.
LMFAO trump exposed your party!! Forget the typical dog whistle racism stunts your beloved GOP has been using since nixon and the southern strategy! LMFAO even willard romney is attacking trump! First Republicans constantly run a larger Government than Democrats.
Clinton was the first president to reduce government size. Republicans have constantly increased the National Debt while Democrats with the exception of Carter have decreased the National Debt. To the man in the movie your concepts are all wrong. Social Programs are not the downfall of the economy, they are the legs of the economy holding it up.
Proven by UTAH Housing first give people dignity and support and they tend to become self sufficient and save the government money. And further the lot of what you have said was wrong. It is The US Economy has recovered from the screw job bush did to us.
You are on a public site open for anyone, mind you, and you decide to use your uneducated brains to come up with these poor excuses of comebacks. Also refrain from using text-talk, and unnecessary capitalization or else you all look and sound like idiots. Info about my self: I am a full time college student at the age of 16 and I am well into my sophomore year of college. To fund these programs and other initiatives, Democrats often increase the tax. Democrats also support environmental protection programs, gun control, less-strict immigration laws, and worker rights.
The democrats go by their symbol Donkey. John F. Republicans, just as the name suggest, support government as a republic.
The Republican Party was founded in We will do all of them-we will do more of them-we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything.
The next Administration may deal with severe tensions in our society. Its dominant task will be to reexamine governmental policies in the light of our experience. We must complete a long-term program to take the place of short-term remedies and emergency experiments. Although we stand aside from the European conflict, our economy, our social life, and our thinking will not escape its far-reaching effects.
Victory will bring prestige to the ideas and the systems and the doctrines of the successful country. We must face the peace of Europe, which may test our stability even more than the war of Europe. We do not know what modifications of their way of life and what reorganization of their economy even the democracies of Europe may make in order to win the war.
Ideas or practices that bring victory will exert new pressures. In this competition of ideas and loyalties our system of representative democracy has belatedly undertaken to provide economic opportunity and security for all of our people. There is no wisdom in turning back.
There is no time to waste. It is later than you think. Now we are ready for our question period. Questions, please. MAN: Dr. Frank, from past experience, many of us have good reason to doubt the Republican platforms.
I would like to ask you specifically: If the Republicans get in, in , what will be their attitude toward the Wages and Hours Law? It will be written in Philadelphia in June. The attitude of the committee's program report was not in violation of the underlying principle of minimum wages and maximum hours for the protection of those unable to protect themselves through collective bargaining. I have given you my judgment that the process of the Program Committee is an accurate reflection of the rank-and-file sentiment and point of view which, in my judgment, will dominate in color the policy of the Republican Party both during the campaign and after the election.
Frank, you spoke at great length about a new and intelligent political and economic outlook of the rank-and-file Republican. Will you be kind enough to advise since when, if ever, have the rank-and-file Republicans chosen presidential candidates at a national convention? During the last two years the Republican Party has been engaged in an extensive process of thoroughly democratizing one of the most important party processes, namely, the formulation of policy, and doing it at a time when the Democratic Party's process of policymaking has been becoming increasingly autocratic and centralized.
MAN: Mr. Jackson, is it not true that during the application of the so-called Mellon tax schedules, running lower on high-income tax returns, more money was taken in those higher brackets in tax collections than was taken in under the higher taxes before that and the higher taxes today on those incomes? JACKSON: Regarding the question about the amount, I haven't the figures in mind; but of course the net collections of the Government depend not merely on the rate but upon the number of people who enjoy those incomes.
There were more people who enjoyed, or thought they enjoyed, those incomes in and those years before, and reported on that basis. I don't think that you can successfully contend that a low rate will produce more income for the Government if you apply it to the same base.
You are comparing two different eras, and applying to them two different bases. Frank, do you think that the statement that "that government which governs least governs best" is applicable to America in ; and if not, what extensions of the Federal Government in the past seven years have been justifiable? We will leave off the last one; that is too long.
FRANK: I do not believe that the bald statement that the government which governs least is the best government applies to the complicated and interdependent situation of in this or any other modern civilization. Jackson, don't you think that one of the prime differences between the Republican and Democratic parties is that the Democratic Party, in its administrations, promulgates various pieces of progressive legislation that seem radical at the moment, and then, when its terms are up, the Republicans come in and mellow and sanctify this legislation?
Frank, you don't see very many essential differences between the two parties, but don't you find in the statements of the Honorable Mr. Jackson as to the performance of the Republican Party in Congress, where it has tried to nullify the efforts of the Democratic Party along progressive lines, an essential difference right there?
FRANK: As one of the mellowers and sanctifiers, in short, as a Republican, I would be perfectly happy to have someone who knew the details make a detailed comparison between the cordial cooperation of the Republican forces, under the New Deal, with valid progressive legislation, and the obstructive forces of the Democratic element in the Congress when the Hoover Administration-which has been so heartily maligned by the New Deal leadership was undertaking to advance highly progressive legislation on many fronts, and it was impossible to get through a Democratically controlled House even progressive banking legislation.
Preston Davie. Jackson, I would like to ask you how the New Deal, if it gets in, proposes to re-employ the 11,, unemployed, if it continues with its punitive policy toward business and the harassment of business? There has been a distinct effort to curtail some kinds of business in the interests of other kinds of business. The Federal Trade Commission acts on a complaint by some businessmen that other businessmen are being unfair to it. Every suit that has been instituted by the Department of Justice against business groups has been instituted at the request and upon the complaint of other groups of businessmen who claimed they were being ruined.
Government must arbitrate those differences and must take a position in reference to those groups. MAN: I should like to address my question to both speakers. In the light of recent foreign developments, do you think America should continue to purchase gold from foreign countries so as to create purchasing power in those foreign countries and thus aid our foreign export trade?
When we get there, I am in exactly the same position that the monetary experts are: I don't know a single thing about it, except instead of saying, "Should we continue to buy the gold? Frank and myself. MAN: I would like to ask each speaker to answer this question. First, Mr. Jackson: What new plans, if any, has the present Administration to put to work the idle money in this nation? JACKSON: The Administration has had a problem of attempting to raise the purchasing power of the people in the lower income groups, who are the great purchasers of the nation.
Those are the groups that spend their money. If you recall, when the depression hit the motor industry, one of the explanations which was given was that there was no longer ability to dispose of used cars, and used cars are the product which are sold to people of low incomes. It is the belief of the group that if you can restore purchasing power so that business has customers, the idle money will go to work supplying the needs of those customers, and that primarily the reason why business is down is because customers aren't available to buy its goods.
Jackson for dramatizing at least one very profound difference between the Democratic and Republican parties today. I agree with Mr.
Jackson, and I agree with the most ardent New Dealer that you can't keep this high-powered productive system going without customers who have money in their pockets with which to buy the output of that productive system. But I dissent heartily, as does the Republican Party generally, from the idea that you can create purchasing power adequate to keep this high-powered productive machine going by either government-made work or elaborate government spending of borrowed money.
As a very temporary shot in the arm to overcome a serious, acute condition, yes; as a going economic process, no. All the record of the experiment is against it. Jackson, youth wants to know what definite steps your party will take to keep America out of war. There has been no indication of a likelihood of our getting into the war, and the legislation is certainly adequate-up to any present needs. Frank what proposals the Republican Party has for putting the 11,, unemployed back to work.
FRANK: The question is: What proposals does the Republican Party have for putting the 10,,, 11,,, or 12,,, or whatever the figure is, back to work. Every attitude, every expression of the temper of the Republican leadership, and every policy incorporated in the report of the Republican Program Committee was directed at the target of revitalizing and re-energizing the basic health of American business, industry, and agriculture, on the assumption that only as the organic health of the economic enterprise of this entire nation returns are you going to get a genuine reabsorption of the unemployed into the ranks of the employed.
You can't do it on made work unless you want to stabilize the living standards of this people at a markedly lower level and herd them into armament plants or troop them down the streets on made work. Jackson, which of the two major parties has a larger number of lawmakers and politicians who, in order to improve the material and spiritual welfare of the nation, do their educating on obedience?
Frank, I understand that some of the men of the Republican National Committee are directors or controllers of steel corporations who bought large quantities of tear gas and other weapons-. Frank, you mentioned President Hoover a moment ago. Do you have any idea what his reaction has been to your report? I have seen reports that he is opposed to it. Hoover was a member of the committee cooperating in the drafting of the report, and the last time I heard him refer to it, he said he felt it was an excellent expression of the political, social, and economic principles in which he had believed, and which he had preached for the last twenty years.
MAN: I would like to ask one question of each gentleman.
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