The Democratic Party stopped being the party of segregation in the 1960s and 1970s when it became the party of equal rights and opened itself up to membership of all ethnic groups. The Segregationalist Democrats quit the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party creating great divisions within the Republican Party and many of the conflicts that are dividing that party today.
Equating the voting record of the political parties for the passing of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the passing of Obama Care is utterly ridiculous. It is broadening the rights protected by these Amendments that gives members of every single citizen of the United States their civil rights except for Native Americans who were put in a special category, and they had to have their civil rights granted to them under separate legislation and also these Amendments only guaranteed women their civil rights after the they were given the right to vote by the 19th Amendment.
It is these Amendments to the Constitution that will guarantee the civil rights of the GLBTQ community once the courts accept the fact it is illegal to discriminate against anyone for whom they are.
The Affordable Care Act is protecting the peoples rights to health by limiting and regulating the control insurance companies have over our health care because we pay for our healthcare through private insurance companies. Medicare and Medicaid coverage is even provided through private insurance companies. In the state of Florida's Managed Medicaid Program all of the individuals on Medicaid have to chose from a private insurance company plan. This year it is being applied to all of the Medicaid recipients in Florida. Someday the Affordable Care Act may be used to insure that all members of the GLBTQ community have the rights to have their healthcare needs covered.
I am on Medicare through Florida Welcare which is a privately run health insurance company.
The Federal government is not controlling all health insurance in the United States. The Federal Government only sets the standards of healthcare and the minimum coverage for all health insurance coverage.
The left does not lay claim to self righteousness, the right does. The left lays claim to diversity, and there is not any unified system of thought on the left.
Take it from an old lefty when I say that the left of the 20th Century is dead today, for the most part, however the right of the 19th century is a live and well. When it comes to government control of property hardly anyone on the left believes in it today, because it is pointless in the world dominated by world wide public stock companies which have sold their stock on the world market. This stock is held by individuals and maybe even some countries around the world. The Chinese Communist party has evolved into the old traditional Chinese bureaucracy, and politburo is just a committee that has replaced the Emperor of China, who thought the wealth of China belonged to him or her. This communist party does not have as much power as it thinks it has. Think of all of the crappy products the government run companies have exported around the world. The communist parties of Cuba and North Korea are a joke. So what's left for the left: equal rights for all, climate change, healthcare for all, women's rights to make their own healthcare decisions, environmental protection, the earth revolves around the sun, the theory of evolution, the end of a patrilinical domination, the United States is the government of the people and not the government of the corporations or businesses. Why isn't the right for all of these?
