No party has a monopoly on being agents of change or making things happen in the world. That is what history actually shows. Republican Abraham Linocoln's convictions that slavery must end and caused him to do the hard things albeit more was certainly needed. Our founding fathers debated this issue greatly and the issue was so divisive it almost prevented the formation of our Constitution and the Bill of Rigths and the issue was Constitutionally tabled for a period of 20 years. So bad, it took 100 years and a war to settle but from but the Constitution is where the end actually came despite it's flaws at the time.

Lincoln's challenger, Democrat Stephen Douglas, a Democrat, and the Democratic party's platform was about protecting and expanding slavery.

The KKK was borne in 1865 at the conclusion of the War and out of Democratic/Confederate interests. The organization was killed thereafter by Republican President Grant through the first Civil Rights Act in 1871.

Later, at the turn of the century, the movie Birth of a Nation glorified the clan, endorsed the hanging of a Jew accused of rape later him being held not to have done so and painted blacks as criminals, subhuman and rapists of white women. Democratic President Woodrow Wilson praised this film and many of his quotes from hsi book Hostory of the American People were used and the mood in this country caused great harm to blacks, Jews and Catholics among others. In the 1920's they infiltrated the Democratic conveniton in 1924 where they were wclomed and KKK supported Democrats took a foothold.

Later, former member Democrat Rober Byrd took office and repudiated he clan. David Duke was originally a Democrat Congressman who turned Republican. Today, amnay accuse the Republicans of being KKK. Clearly, both parties could be accused of sympathies.

100 years after Lincoln, Democrats Kennedy and Johnson propelled the Civil Rights cause and moved Lincoln's successes to greater heights. Johnson was amazing in these efforts and singed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. So here you had both sides of the aisle doing truly great things to improve freedoms and equality for all Americans. And Democrats and Republicans have both gone to war...again Lincoln and Kennnedy/Johnson and Roosevelt and Bush...simply no monoploies there either. Clearly, credit and criticisms are due both sides.

Both parties have done good things and bad and there is lots and lots of history to show that neither side has any such monopoly you suggest. It is great people who do great things and they have all kinds of political slants and come from all nationalities, races, religious beliefs, and both sexes.

Democrats and Republicans are made up of all sorts of people. There are good politicans and bad politicians on both sides of the aisle...just look at the corrpution on both sides. And there are good Democractic Americans and Republican Americans and the bad. Just look at this election cycle.

It is not productive nor uniting for either side to try and take all the credit or accuse of all the blame. To do otherwise keeps us divided and we get nowhere. We can learn from each other and challenge each other to do more. It is our differences and the debate about those differences that has ALWAYS worked for this country and from which this country was borne and which has made it so great. And both parties have ebbed and flowed. The differences have been our greatest check and balance and has also made both parties great and terrible at different times.

As I understand it, your preferred candidate said that there is not a Democratic America or a Repulbican America, but rather there is one America. Of all of the things I have heard from Obama, this is my very favorite and something I strongly believe.

United we stand and divided we fall. So much to be said about that and we Americans have much to do and a long way to go to bring about true equality, expand our liberties, and to protect our freedoms both here at home and abroad. That will only be achieved by "One Love" for America and Dems and Reps working together to get there. And that is what history has actually shown. Peace IG.