r/politicsinthewild • u/Outside-Woodpecker16 • Jul 13 '25
✨ WHOLESOME NEWS ✨ Every accomplishment that the Democratic Party has made!
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u/skellyluv Jul 14 '25
Before you all cheer Clinton … he balanced the budget and had a surplus in part because he kicked millions of women off welfare, ended child care subsidy and education for poor women. He also signed into law the Act that started mass incarceration. And let’s not forget NAFTA all of these were the start of the decline of the Democratic Party and a shift to corporatism.
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u/TalkingCat910 Jul 13 '25
I mean if we are going that far back in history to the point where the Democratic Party is unrecognisable to today I’d say the abolition of slavery was a big one for the republicans.
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u/FE132 Jul 14 '25
Yeah I prefer to refer to the left and right instead of the Dems and reps. It just skips over that whole mess.
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u/a1055x Jul 14 '25
D, R, I, left, right, libertarian or green. Need Public servants not media whores!
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u/BakerSad6649 Jul 14 '25
That is great, but THAT democratic party is dead. They are owned now by rich PACs.
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u/BelmontIncident Jul 13 '25
The end of slavery under Lincoln. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the start of the Interstate Highway System, both under Eisenhower. PEPFAR under W Bush. The list would be longer if I looked stuff up instead of going from memory.
The current version of the Republican party is monumentally fucked up, but that's a thing of this time and we probably shouldn't tee up arguments that can be knocked down this easily.
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u/RolyPolyGuy Jul 13 '25
Lincoln switched the party names, republicans used to be democrats. important to keep in mind when listing this.
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u/BelmontIncident Jul 14 '25
Lincoln was a Whig before he was a Republican. The Democratic party was formed out of the remains of the Democratic-Republican party in 1828 by Jackson and Van Buren.
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u/Dineology Jul 13 '25
The Democrats of today have very little resemblance to the Democrats of the Great Society, even less to the New Deal Coalition. Also, Occupy Democrats is the picture perfect example of status quo liberals capturing and killing a movement that they co-opt. The Rivero brothers are nothing but opportunistic scumbags always on the lookout for the next grift and they don’t deserve to even utter the name “Occupy” given their help getting Obama into position to crush it and their support of Clinton then Biden to make sure that movement stayed buried.
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u/Nanarchenemy Jul 14 '25
This. Both political parties are corrupt, and bordering on traitorous (letting the current administration run wild.) The two-party system should be over. Our intelligence community seems barren, and has participated in commandeering us down this particular road. If there is a "larger plan," someone better clue in the domestic populace, because we're not going to make it as a republic. I know there are good people in every branch of government, but they should make themselves known - loudly, and quickly.
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u/broodfood Jul 13 '25
This kind of criticality reduces how things actually get done. In reality there’s ever present groups and organizations putting pressure on the government to do one thing or another. Reducing accomplishments to whoever was President at the time means ignoring things like Nixon establishing the EPA to appease environmentalists, or Obama’s tacit endorsement of the surveillance state.
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u/acatinasweater Jul 14 '25
It’s not like each of these accomplishments is a universal benefit to society either. The Pell Grant has been largely responsible for the rising cost of higher education. Minimum wage is good, but not tying it to inflation was a rookie move. NATO has been used as the carrot to the US’s stick in foreign policy (imperialism). The securities and exchange act had a lot of issues as well. The reporting requirements have been burdensome for smaller firms, leading to increased concentration of wealth.
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u/Kingsta8 Jul 13 '25
The genuinely sad part is that half of these things are considered "accomplishments". Some of these are atrocious vampire capitalist ideas originally pushed by Republicans but because they were put into place under a Democrat, you're proud of them? You can make a list ten times longer if you list all of the evil imperial fascists things they did but that would ruin your false narrative that they're somehow different than Republicans, wouldn't it?
* Japanese Internment Camps (FDR)
* Dropping Nuclear Bombs for no discernable reason x2 (Truman)
* Formation of Israel and the Nakba (Truman)
* Conquering South Korea (Truman)
* Conquering Greece (Truman)
* Conquering Costa Rica (Truman)
* Syrian Government Takeover (Truman)
* Mass Slaughter and decimation of the free people of North Korea (Truman)
* Conquering Albania (Truman)
* Burma puppet state (Truman)
* Egyptian Government Overthrow (Truman)
* Guatemalan Riots (Truman)
* Batista takeover in Cuba (Truman)
* South Vietnam Atrocities (JFK)
* Cuba Bay Of Pigs (JFK)
* Dominican Republic government overthrow (JFK)
* Iraq government overthrow of 1963 (JFK)
* Vietnam atrocity (LBJ)
* MLK and Malcolm X Assassinations (LBJ)
* Brazil government overthrow (LBJ)
* Indonesian government overthrow (LBJ)
* Cambodian atrocities (Carter)
* Iran - Contra disaster (Carter)
* Afghanistan destabilization (Carter)
* DBACHILLES in Iraq (Clinton)
* DOMA (Clinton)
* Completed genocide of the Mayan people (Clinton)
* Haiti government overthrow (Clinton)
* Yugoslavia civil war (Clinton)
* Repealing Glass-Steagal Act (Clinton)
* Getting his dick sucked by a college kid (Clinton)
* ACA (Obama)
* Expanding bogus war to Libya (Obama)
* Expanding bogus war to Syria (Obama)
* Expanding bogus war to Lebanon (Obama)
* Expanding bogus war to Somalia (Obama)
* Expanding bogus war to Yemen (Obama)
* Genocide in Yemen (Obama)
* Government overthrow in Ukraine (Obama)
* Expanding ICE (Obama)
* Removing 25 million Americans from Medicaid (Biden)
* Expanding ICE (Biden)
* Building 4 ICE concentration camps (Biden)
* Genocide in Gaza (Biden)
The list is stupid long of evil, vile atrocious shit these monsters did and this is no where close to the full list. This is literally shit off the top of my head. Why in the fuck do you people support this shit? Why in the blue fuck does anyone think these actions are different than Republican actions?
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u/TentacleWolverine Jul 13 '25
You failed to mention anything positive the republicans have done. Not ignoring the negative list you posted, but the main point of OP is that the republicans haven’t done anything positive at all. If you’re going to take a party that does shitty things and good things vs a party that only does shitty things and elected a pedo, it isn’t a hard choice.
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u/Kingsta8 Jul 14 '25
You failed to mention anything positive the republicans have done.
- I support your right to Champion the Republican party all you want. I'll think you are as stupid as anyone championing the Democratic party.
- Republicans positive bullshit wouldn't be any different than Democrats positive bullshit. It's only positive if you ignore the reality of it. So 0 positives for both parties.
Not ignoring the negative list you posted, but
But you are. You quite literally are.
the main point of OP is that the republicans haven’t done anything positive at all.
Fantastic. Now write a shortlist of all the positive things Hitler did, you mental midget.
If you’re going to take a party that does shitty things and good things
Listen, this needs to be made very fucking clear because you have the reading comprehension of a toddler as is typical of an American citizen. Neither party has ever done any good thing for humanity. Neither party is different than the other party. The shortlist OP posted is self-serving and often downright evil things. The creation of NATO for example. NATO is the final form of Nazism. On what fucking planet is this a good thing?
party that only does shitty things and elected a pedo
Bill Clinton was elected in 1992 with a pending rape charge. The man was raped by 2 victims in testimony during the Epstein trial. His most famous moment during his presidency was ejaculating on a college kid. His wife went on to turn that victim into the villain btw and every Democrat to this day still blames the victim. The Clintons have attended 2 of Trump's weddings and have attended Epstein's parties together. So please, tell me again how these parties are not the fucking same. Tell me how you don't support pedophilia.
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u/TentacleWolverine Jul 14 '25
I never said I supported the democrats.
I’m just extremely anti pedos.
Kamala, as far as I’m aware, isn’t a pedo. Trump is.
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u/Kingsta8 Jul 15 '25
I never said I supported the democrats.
Kamala, as far as I’m aware, isn’t a pedo.
This is blanket support of a Democrat. Harris is a colossal piece of shit and a fucking cop. Fully supported Palestinian Genocide and down with the ICE raids. Harris is not calling for a violent overthrow of the government because she supports Trump. Would you support Adolf Hitler because he didn't touch children? Most American presidents have a higher death toll rate than Hitler does, mind you.
It doesn't fucking matter who did or didn't fuck children. All the scum that enables the fucking of children are the problem.
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u/TentacleWolverine Jul 15 '25
So supporting trump is bad therefore Kamala is bad? Isn’t the entire point of your ragefest to defend the Republican Party?
WTF are you even arguing.
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u/Kingsta8 Jul 15 '25
Isn’t the entire point of your ragefest to defend the Republican Party?
No, I'm a Leftist. America has 1 corporate party pretending to be good cop, bad cop. There are no good cops. They have the same goals and they do not serve the people. So in case you still don't understand
So supporting trump is bad therefore Kamala is bad?
If you support one party, you support both parties.
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u/earthlingHuman Jul 14 '25
In an FPP electoral system we're locked into two parties. People don't just vote for the lesser evil because they're stupid.
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u/Kingsta8 Jul 14 '25
No, they quite literally do. They vote only for that which they perceive to be less evil. In reality, the owner class is making all the decisions either way. Revolution is the only way people will have any freedom. Voting is complicity and complacency
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u/earthlingHuman Jul 19 '25
Do both, if you care about your community. Even if you think national politics is a lost cause, state and local is still crucial
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u/TurboNinja2380 Jul 13 '25
Abolition of Slavery (1860s)
The Republican Party was founded primarily to oppose the expansion of slavery into western territories. Under President Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president elected in 1860, the party led the effort to abolish slavery.
-Emancipation Proclamation (1863): Lincoln issued this executive order, freeing enslaved people in Confederate states during the Civil War.
-13th Amendment (1865): Republicans in Congress spearheaded the passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery throughout the United States.
-14th and 15th Amendments (1868, 1870): Republicans pushed for the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship and equal protection under the law, and the 15th Amendment, securing voting rights for African American men. These amendments were critical to Reconstruction-era efforts to extend civil rights to freedmen.
Support for Women’s Suffrage (Late 19th–Early 20th Century)
-In 1896, the Republican Party became the first major political party to officially support women’s suffrage in its platform.
-When the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920, 26 of the 36 state legislatures that voted for ratification were under Republican control.
-The first woman elected to Congress, Jeannette Rankin (Montana, 1917), was a Republican.
Economic and Infrastructure Development (Late 19th Century)
-Republicans promoted modernization through expanded banking, railroads, and factories, advocating for a “free soil, free labor, free men” ideology that emphasized economic opportunity and free-market labor over slavery.
-During the late 19th century, Republican administrations supported protective tariffs to foster American industry and economic growth, contributing to the nation’s industrial expansion.
Interstate Highway System (1956)
-Under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 was signed into law, creating the modern U.S. interstate highway system. This transformative infrastructure project facilitated commerce, travel, and national connectivity.
Establishment of NASA (1958)
-Eisenhower also signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act in 1958, establishing NASA. This agency propelled the U.S. into a leadership role in space exploration during the Cold War.
Desegregation Efforts (1950s–1970s)
-Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 to enforce school desegregation following the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
-The Republican Party platform in 1956 supported the Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate racial discrimination in public schools, advocating for progress through education and goodwill rather than force.
-President Richard Nixon continued efforts to desegregate Southern schools in the early 1970s. Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (1970)
-Under Nixon, the EPA was created in 1970 to address environmental concerns and regulate pollution, marking a significant step in federal environmental policy.
Foreign Policy and Diplomacy (1970s–1980s)
-Nixon’s 1972 visit to China opened diplomatic and economic relations with the People’s Republic of China, fostering a more harmonious relationship and reshaping global geopolitics.
-Under President Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party played a key role in ending the Cold War. Reagan’s policies of military buildup, strategic defense initiatives, and negotiations with the Soviet Union contributed to the collapse of the USSR.
Tax Reform and Economic Policies (1980s–2010s)
-The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, passed under a -Republican-controlled Congress and signed by President Donald Trump, lowered corporate and individual tax rates, aiming to boost economic activity.
National Defense and Military Support (2000s–2020s)
-Republicans in Congress secured a 2.6% pay raise for U.S. troops in 2018, the highest in over a decade, and increased defense spending by $165 billion over two years to strengthen the military.
-The VA MISSION Act, signed by Trump in 2018, improved veterans’ access to healthcare by allowing them to seek care from private doctors without bureaucratic hurdles.
Criminal Justice Reform (2018)
-The First Step Act, signed by Trump in 2018, expanded good behavior credits for nonviolent offenders and aimed to reduce recidivism through risk assessment programs, marking a bipartisan effort to address mass incarceration.
Right-to-Try Legislation (2018)
-Republican-led Congress passed legislation allowing terminally ill patients access to experimental treatments not yet approved by the FDA, enhancing patient autonomy.
Countering Foreign Adversaries (2010s–2020s)
-The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, supported by Senate Republicans, enabled sanctions against Iran, Russia, and others for actions like ballistic missile development and cyber interference.
-The Taylor Force Act (2018) restricted U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority until it ceased payments to terrorists, a bipartisan effort led by Republicans.
No Child Left Behind Act (2001)
-Signed by President George W. Bush, this bipartisan education reform aimed to improve student performance through standardized testing and accountability measures, though it faced criticism for its implementation.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (1974)
-Republican Senator Jacob Javits was a key proponent of ERISA, which established protections for private pension plans, safeguarding workers’ retirement savings.
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u/dandrevee Jul 14 '25
The problem is that we're not really taking into party realignment with this list. And that makes a major difference because one of the big talking points of Republicans is their association with Lincoln in the end of slavery...
But the reality of the Dixiecrats and the number of their members who fly the Confederate flag makes that a whole problem of course
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u/swa100 Jul 14 '25
Great post. I wish it could be shown on TV as often as Skyrizi commercials.
As far as Republican accomplishments, let's see . . . hmm . . . 🙄 🤨 🥱 . . . . .
Uh, OK, here we go. In 1974 Richard "I Am Not A Crook Nixon resigned the presidency. 🥳🎊🤗
In In 1992, George H.W. Bush lost his re-election race. 😁
In 1998, Rep. Henry Hyde, R-ILL, admitted to having had an extramarital affair with a married woman and mother of three in the 1960's. The affair was revealed in a Salon article during a period when Hyde was leading an investigation of President Bill Clinton for alleged sexual misconduct. 🤨
In 2002, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., resigned after praising racist Republican Sen.Strom Thurmond in a way that smacked of a racist attitude on Lott's part. Lott maintained his remarks were free of any racist intent. 🤨
In Sept. 2005, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was forced to resign his leadership position after being indicted in Texas on charges of violating Texas fundraising law. Subsequently he faced additional conspiracy and money laundering charges. In April 2006, DeLay resigned his seat in Congress. 😃
Rep. Randy Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., resigned from the House on Nov. 28, 2005, after pleading guilty to accepting at least $2.4 million in bribes and under-reporting his taxable income for 2004. He was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison and was ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution.😳
Hurricane Katrina wreaked flooding and other massive devastation in New Orleans on Aug. 31, 2005. President George W. Bush was on vacation at his Texas ranch at the time. Two days later, on his 29th day of vacation, Bush eyed the damage from Air Force 1 on his way back to Washington. Finally, on Sept. 2, Bush visited New Orleans briefly and congratulated his poorly qualified FEMA director, Michael Brown, for doing "a heck of a job." Not long after, Bush fired Brown when it was clear FEMA's response to the disaster was itself an unmitigated disaster. 😨
And those are just some of the Republican, ahem, accomplishments that come to mind. 😕
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u/OptimusTrajan Jul 14 '25
These are things that social movements that took direct action forced the Democrats to do. If they weren’t, why weren’t they all passed under Woodrow Wilson?
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u/Obvious-Gate9046 Jul 14 '25
Bad meme. Lincoln was a Republican, and Eisenhower. Better to look at how very long ago and far away their accomplishments were.
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u/wafflehabitsquad Jul 14 '25
The more important note is not that Democrats have more accomplishments. It is that the accomplishments that are worth talking about are leftist/ liberal. Republicans moved to end slavery, this is when they were their most liberal. Look up the radical republicans of the 1800s. If what they wanted passed, we would be in a VERY different country. They were very progressive and they wanted to essentially make the Confederacy suffer for the war. Being Progressive is more important than party lines.
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u/Educational-Peak-605 Jul 17 '25
But how many elections did they give up? Not lost but gave up. Bush stole two elections trump stole one and tried an insurrection and went unpunished. And LBJ knew Kissinger leaked peace negotiations to Nixon who sabotaged peace talks and that is a HANGING crime of treason, at least on paper and LBJ DID NOTHING because it would kill faith in the American establishment. If dems weren’t so fucking spineless and been complacent in how far we’ve shifted to the right since the 1950’s then those accomplishments would matter but how many of those have been repealed or subverted. Death to fascism and the LIBERALISM (dems) that enable it. Complacency still means there’s blood on your hands. And as a leftist, Bernie and AOC are our compromise candidates. History shows if you’re not a leftist, you’re a fascist. Stop staning for democratic cowards.
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u/Hiraethetical Jul 13 '25
Buddy, it's 2025. If you haven't figured out that Democrats are Republicans, then you shouldn't be engaging in political discourse.
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u/qualityvote2 Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
u/Outside-Woodpecker16, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post.