Democratic Credo

[bigmonk]

We love America;
We love Americans more.

We love our country’s government, freedom, constitutional rights, natural resources, free market economy, military, our work ethic, sense of honor, generosity, pride and patriotism, our common decency and respect, our arts and culture, and mostly, the American Dream.

We love the American Dream so deeply, because America at its best, offers the possibility that anyone, from anywhere, can start with nothing but a dream, and succeed.

So we love Americans, all Americans, past, present, and future. Past Americans, like the Patriots who defied the world’s greatest power to introduce democracy and the bill of rights. Present Americans who work every day to support their families and maintain our economy. Future Americans, who come to fulfill that American Dream and add one more name to the family that is we Americans.

We love and respect working people who supply the labor that feeds the nation, provides our daily needs and makes the economy strong.
We love and respect women because they are the glue that binds our society and families together.
We love and respect children because they are our hopes and the forgers of our heritage.
We love and respect minorities because the American culture is the great mixing pot, where different peoples come together, to be assimilated but to join together in mutual respect.
We love and respect immigrants because they remind us the world is much larger than us and we need their new perspectives.

Of course, we love them as people, however, we love them more, for they are us.
We are Americans. We are all Americans, and we love them.

[J_William_Ryan]

1. What Democrats can't talk about - if we do, we'll lose elections.

Democrats must not say we love and support gay Americans.

We must not say that we love and support transgender Americans, including defending the right of parents of transgender children to make decisions about their children’s lives.

We must not love and support diversity, inclusion, and expressions of individual liberty.

And we must not support the rights of immigrants to come to America seeking asylum in accordance with the law.

Democrats are being told that they lost the last presidential election not because of racism and misogyny but because of our policies and positions on the issues: too much love, too much support, too much respect.