Essay On Being A Democrat

I didn't start off as a Liberal when I was younger, I identified with being a Democrat. I think the only reason why I used to identify as being a Democrat because as an African-American I thought that was the right thing to be. In black community’s young black children are taught to be only Democrat because being a Republican is only for rich white people. As I got older and began to do my research about both the Democratic and Republican Party I soon realized that there was a lot of things that I didn't like about either party. While I do tend to agree more with Democrats I still can't fully commit to being a Democrat. When I was younger, I didn't know that there was such a thing as being a liberal I always thought that you only have two choices Democrat or Republican. But that all changed when one day in my history class in high school we talked about the different political parties. We of course talked about Democrats and Republicans, which I already knew about, but then my teacher started to explain what a liberal was. My teacher

The reason I think that is because my views on abortion is similar to liberals. Like most Liberals I feel that it is a woman’s right to decide what she wants to do with her body. Conservatives argue that abortion is murder but how? It’s a fetus and is not yet classified as human. Some women have been raped and don’t want to give birth and some women simply can’t have a baby because of health reasons. I feel no matter the case unless the people who are against abortions are willing to pitch in and help raise the child, they shouldn’t be the ones deciding whether or not the woman gets an abortion. The reason I feel that my Ideological placement will be Conservative because of my views on gay marriage. While I don’t have a problem with homosexual people and would never disrespect them, I feel that marriage should be between a man and