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The Democrats’ Platform Is Not Based on Principles

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20.09.2026

While Republicans stand for limited government, low taxes, free markets, family values and treating everyone equally, the Democrats strangely don’t have principles. This makes it odd that half the country chooses their cobbled-together combination of viewpoints.  

Democrats prefer a massive level of government, which isn’t based on any principle but whatever the fad is. Lately, they’ve been favoring Democratic Socialism. They are always raising taxes, and it’s never clear how high they want to raise them. At the same time, they disguise their language to not overtly admit they are raising taxes. 

Democrats like only somewhat free markets, and arbitrarily decide which areas they decide to clamp down on with government regulations.

When it comes to the family, Democrats basically position themselves as opposing anything Republicans value. They promote alternative types of families other than nuclear families, despite evidence showing nuclear families are the best environments to grow up in for children. 

The few principles they claim to have are contradictory. They pretend to support women’s rights, but promoting abortion hurts women. Not only do mothers choose to abort more female babies than male babies, but the mothers suffer tremendous guilt afterwards. In contrast, Republicans stand for the sanctity of life. Democrats push for biological males to compete in women’s sports, hurting biological women who can’t compete with male physical........

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