how did the democratic party let itself be labeled as...

[freepcrusher]

the party of feminists, fags, pointy headed intellectuals, lazy inner city minorities, evil godless liberals who want to make church illegal etc? I mean the democratic party has been around for 150 years and I'm only 27 years old, but I doubt we were always labeled this way. What caused us to be viewed as this?

Also, if the opposition is going to pigeonhole the democrats as it, why can't the democrats themselves come up with scare tactics to get people to vote democrat. If they are going to call us the party of Chuck Schumer or Barbara Boxer (read urban liberal jews) then we should label them as the party of Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint. We should try to describe them as the party of ignorant rubes whose ideas fit more in 1912 than 2012 and we should try to come up with a GOP equivalent of a "cadillac driving welfare queen" or a "pointy headed intellectual".

[Liberté]

Because it allowed itself to be labeled, and in this case far more accurately, as the Party of bureaucrats. And as most of the social progress of the 20th century came by way of the government (even though a lot of this progress actually occurred under the Republican administrations of the mid-20th century), the Democrats became tarred with those labels in the process. There's no reason for a Party of "feminists, fags, pointy headed intellectuals, lazy inner city minorities" and "evil godless liberals" to be married to the government. Their natural role is in opposition to the majority, and consequentially in opposition to the government of the majority.

[Dgov]

You're new to politics, aren't you . . . .

Well, for starters, the Republicans have already been labeled as the party of Ignorant Racist Greedy Evangelicals who want to burn gays and murder abortion doctors while swimming in their vaults of gold pieces they got from denying Orphans medical care.  It's just a matter of where you live and who controls the messaging system there--whoever's in control sets the tone.  There's a reason the Republican party is fading in the Northern Suburbs they used to get 60% in after all.

[Liberté]

You're new to politics, aren't you . . . .

Well, for starters, the Republicans have already been labeled as the party of Ignorant Racist Greedy Evangelicals who want to burn gays and murder abortion doctors while swimming in their vaults of gold pieces they got from denying Orphans medical care.  It's just a matter of where you live and who controls the messaging system there--whoever's in control sets the tone.  There's a reason the Republican party is fading in the Northern Suburbs they used to get 60% in after all.

That doesn't really explain how those labels got applied to each separate Party. If we analyze it historically, we find that the Democrats became associated with "Big Government" around the time of the New Deal. When the Supreme Court began desegregating schools and allowing legalized abortion - though both occurred under Republican majorities appointed by Republican Presidents - the Democrats got stuck with the nomenclature of not only being in favor of an activist government economically, but in favor of a government that would 'impose' what Democrats call equality and what I call freedom on the rest of society.

[krazen1211]

Feminists - Title IX and Roe v Wade

Fags - Harvey Milk

Pointy Headed Intellectuals - Roosevelt and the New Deal

Lazy Inner City Minorities - Johnson and the Great Society

Evil Godless Liberals - Probably numerous causes to this one. Ranges from the Warren Court to Bill Clinton to Elk Grove v Newdow.

I'll throw in:

Unions - John Kennedy and the AFL-CIO.

[Lief 🗽]

Fags, godless liberals, and pointy headed intellectuals are some of my favorite people. I'm glad to be a "member" of the party associated with them.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Fags, godless liberals, and pointy headed intellectuals are some of my favorite people. I'm glad to be a "member" supporter of the party associated with them.

[freepcrusher]

Feminists - Title IX and Roe v Wade

Fags - Harvey Milk

Pointy Headed Intellectuals - Roosevelt and the New Deal

Lazy Inner City Minorities - Johnson and the Great Society

Evil Godless Liberals - Probably numerous causes to this one. Ranges from the Warren Court to Bill Clinton to Elk Grove v Newdow.

I'll throw in:

Unions - John Kennedy and the AFL-CIO.

Agree with everything except for the unions. The republicans until this year, were careful not to demagogue unions because many of the people they were trying to win over with fags, feminists, hippies were themselves union members a la Macomb County, Michigan.

[King]

lulz ur guyz r smart.  Go home and read a book FAGs

[RIP Robert H Bork]

I knew who wrote this before reading it.

the party of feminists, fags, pointy headed intellectuals, lazy inner city minorities, evil godless liberals who want to make church illegal etc?

The past few decades, starting from the 1960s, should tell you everything.

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The Democrats are already doing that, but I disagree with your idea that we are 'ignorant rubes whose ideas fit more in 1912 than 2012'.

[Zarn]

I figure you would find it better than the previous label of angry, backwards Klansmen and pompous descendants of slave holders.