I have to say that understanding this particular subject gave me one hell of a time while I was much younger. Being a young Nigerian girl who was fascinated with the wild, wild West and the World at large, I just wanted to be free to roam the world and understand it's intricacies. It's diction and different terminologies made me begin to read what I honestly had no business reading at that time what so ever.
So many years later, I'm sitting in front of a laptop typing away, trying to disseminate the information I have been able to gather together this long and torturous years of traveling, mingling and reading.
Initially, I thought that being a democrat meant you believed in democracy and in my head, well all Americans were democrats! The popular catchphrase, "Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people" by former president Abraham Lincoln, who coincidentally was a Republican president pretty much summed it up for me. Americans practice Democracy right? and if like me, you believed in this notion, you just had to be a Democrat! Pretty dumb, huh?
Things got clearer for me when I found out that the so called "Democrats" supported abortion insisting it should not be made illegal and they also saw nothing wrong in gay marriages. (Even though, of course there will always be exceptions). I am a Christian and I don't support any of the aforementioned. You will therefore pardon the beliefs I feel so strongly about even though I won't apologize for any of them.
Finding this out made me really want to dig into who the Democrats really were and what they stood for. I have come to find however, that they are pretty much liberal in their philosophy and have a somewhat carefree attitude to pretty much everything. I dare say!
It probably explains the reason they have Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairperson. A Jewish congresswoman and the first ever elected into any party. The Democrats seem to me like people who incorporate every strata of the society into their kitchen cabinet. A perfect example will be no other than President Obama himself. From what will be best described as one of the lesser minorities, President Obama and chair Schultz are reasons enough to prove that the Democrats believe in the sharing of power. Beg to disagree? Then I will like to see a Republican president from the minority.
Writing this makes me laugh because I personally am a big fan of the Republicans as well. Well you can't exactly blame me, confused as I might seem. They have produced Presidents that left an indelible mark in my mind and that of other Americans as well. Take Abe Lincoln for example, a personal motivational story for me to keep working at my dreams. And there is Ted Roosevelt whom the Teddy Bear was named for. Bet you are just finding that out, huh? I digress.
They, the Republicans that is, strike me as the American elite. They are a lot more conservative and frown on abortion and gay marriages (of course again, they will also have their own exceptions). Even their party symbol which is the elephant exudes a certain sophistication and grace as against the Democrats donkey we all know to be a stubborn ass animal. (No pun intended, seriously.)
Even though, I wasn't exactly swayed by John McCain at the last presidential elections (truth be told I didn't even like him at all for obvious reasons and the way he handled the debates) you have to give it to the Republicans for the way they do things on a higher level. They are so not the commoners and will never follow that kind of mentality. But we all know that the royals could be quite brutal or do we not?
In summary, I will just say on my own terms that a Democrat is your typical, everyday-next-door-neighbor and a Republican? The high brow elitist. Just before I get attacked, know that they both have their advantages (if we could only merge them into a new entity) and their disadvantages. That's the way I see the whole thing.
